Re: [PATCH] mm: percpu: use kmemleak_ignore_phys() instead of kmemleak_free()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 05 2022 - 17:20:08 EST

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On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 19:31:58 +0800 Patrick Wang <patrick.wang.shcn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kmemleak recently added a rbtree to store the objects
> allocted with physical address. Those objects can't be
> freed with kmemleak_free(). Use kmemleak_ignore_phys()
> instead of kmemleak_free() for those objects.

Thanks. What are the user-visible runtime effects of this?

And are we able to identify a commit for the Fixes: line?

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