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

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Message-ID: <c423c281f6739b7d847e2375c65ec2a4cf839d01.camel@mediatek.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jun 2022 10:46:07 +0800
From:   Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@...iatek.com>
To:     Patrick Wang <patrick.wang.shcn@...il.com>,
        "catalin.marinas@....com" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yee Lee (李建誼) 
        <Yee.Lee@...iatek.com>, <kuan-ying.lee@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] mm: kmemleak: store objects allocated with
 physical address separately and check when scan

On Fri, 2022-06-03 at 11:54 +0800, Patrick Wang wrote:
> The kmemleak_*_phys() interface uses "min_low_pfn" and
> "max_low_pfn" to check address. But on some architectures,
> kmemleak_*_phys() is called before those two variables
> initialized. The following steps will be taken:
> 
> 1) Add OBJECT_PHYS flag and rbtree for the objects allocated
>    with physical address
> 2) Store physical address in objects if allocated with OBJECT_PHYS
> 3) Check the boundary when scan instead of in kmemleak_*_phys()
> 
> This patch set will solve:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220527032504.30341-1-yee.lee@mediatek.com
> 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/9dd08bb5-f39e-53d8-f88d-bec598a08c93@gmail.com

Hi Patrick,

If this patchset fix the above issue, I think we need to add
the below fixes tag.

Fixes: 23c2d497de21 ("mm: kmemleak: take a full lowmem check in
kmemleak_*_phys()")

Thanks.

> 
> v1: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220531150823.1004101-1-patrick.wang.shcn@gmail.com
> 
> v1->v2:
>  - add rbtree for the objects allocated with physical address
>  - store physical address in objects if allocated with OBJECT_PHYS
>  - check the upper object boundary as well and avoid duplicate check
> 
> 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
> 
>  mm/kmemleak.c | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> ----
>  1 file changed, 123 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
>