Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ignore kmemleak scanning on CMA regions

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Nov 27 2021 - 19:10:35 EST


On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 10:47:11 +0800 Calvin Zhang <calvinzhang.cool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just like this:
> commit 620951e27457 ("mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions").
>
> Add kmemleak_ignore_phys() for CMA created from of reserved node.

Could we please have a full, standalone changelog for this patch?

The 620951e27457 changelog says "Without this, the kernel crashes...".
Does your patch also fix a crash? If so under what circumstances and
should we backport this fix into -stable kernels?

Etcetera.