Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck

From: Pekka Enberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:07:36 +0200

Hi Sasha,

On 3/11/15 1:43 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> As discussed on LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.
>
> KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
> kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream.
>
> We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't consider
> KASan as a suitable replacement).
>
> I've build tested it using all[yes,no,mod]config and fuzzed a bit with this
> patch applied, didn't notice any bad behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email-masked]>

Can you elaborate on what exactly was discussed at LSF/MM? Preferably in 
the commit log. ;-)

- Pekka
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