On 30 September 2017 at 11:48, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:02:07 +0200
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> > Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports
>> > KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons.
>>
>> This is just too large to review manually. How have you generated the
>> patch?
>
> I agree. This needs to be taken out piece by piece, not in one go,
> where there could be unexpected fallout.

I have a patch from earlier this year that starts by removing the core
code and defining all the helpers/flags as no-ops so they can be
removed bit by bit at a later time. See the attachment. Pekka signed
off on it too.

I never actually submitted this because I was waiting for MSAN to be
merged in the kernel. It has been compile and run tested on x86_64.


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