linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] mm: kmemleak: store objects allocated with physical address separately and check when scan

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Date:   Fri, 3 Jun 2022 12:01:34 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Patrick Wang <patrick.wang.shcn@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yee.lee@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] mm: kmemleak: store objects allocated with
 physical address separately and check when scan

On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 11:54:11AM +0800, Patrick Wang wrote:
> Patrick Wang (4):
>   mm: kmemleak: add OBJECT_PHYS flag for objects allocated with physical
>     address
>   mm: kmemleak: add rbtree for objects allocated with physical address
>   mm: kmemleak: handle address stored in object based on its type
>   mm: kmemleak: kmemleak_*_phys() set address type and check PA when
>     scan

This looks fine at a very quick look but I'll do a in-depth review next
week. One more thing needed is to remove the min_count argument to
kmemleak_alloc_phys() and assume it's always 0. After this series we
can't track them for leaking anyway.

Thanks for putting this together.

-- 
Catalin