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Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again

From Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again
Date 2017-09-30 11:50 +0200
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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.

> 
> My compile test batery failed for i386 allyesconfig for some reason
> which is not entirely clear to me (see attached).  I have applied on top
> of dc972a67cc54585bd83ad811c4e9b6ab3dcd427e and that one compiles fine.
> 
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>  
> 
> Anyway I fully support this removal. It is a lot of rarely used code and
> KASAN is much more usable.

Now that my default compilers support KASAN, I'm fine with this removal.

-- Steve

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Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-09-27 17:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com> - 2017-09-27 17:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-09-27 19:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com> - 2017-09-28 00:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-09-30 11:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com> - 2017-09-30 22:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-10-02 09:30 +0200

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