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2016-10-11mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mappingCatalin Marinas1-0/+9
Some of the kmemleak_*() callbacks in memblock, bootmem, CMA convert a physical address to a virtual one using __va(). However, such physical addresses may sometimes be located in highmem and using __va() is incorrect, leading to inconsistent object tracking in kmemleak. The following functions have been added to the kmemleak API and they take a physical address as the object pointer. They only perform the corresponding action if the address has a lowmem mapping: kmemleak_alloc_phys kmemleak_free_part_phys kmemleak_not_leak_phys kmemleak_ignore_phys The affected calling places have been updated to use the new kmemleak API. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531432-16503-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-08-18docs: sphinxify kmemleak.txt and move it to dev-toolsJonathan Corbet1-0/+210
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>