Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:29:32 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     "Isaac J. Manjarres" <isaacmanjarres@google.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Calvin Zhang <calvinzhang.cool@gmail.com>,
        kernel-team@android.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Revert "mm: kmemleak: alloc gray object for reserved
 region with direct map"
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 03:02:54PM -0800, Isaac J. Manjarres wrote:
> This reverts commit 972fa3a7c17c9d60212e32ecc0205dc585b1e769.
> 
> Kmemleak operates by periodically scanning memory regions for pointers
> to allocated memory blocks to determine if they are leaked or not.
> However, reserved memory regions can be used for DMA transactions
> between a device and a CPU, and thus, wouldn't contain pointers to
> allocated memory blocks, making them inappropriate for kmemleak to
> scan. Thus, revert this commit.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.17+
> Cc: Calvin Zhang <calvinzhang.cool@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres <isaacmanjarres@google.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>