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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 09:29:04 +0200
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:

> Maybe splitting the patch into three: 1) remove all callers of kmemleak
> API and 2) remove arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/ and 3) remove leftovers would
> be slightly easier to review. Maybe 2 and 3 would have some dependencies
> so they would have to end up in the same path.

Perhaps start with just marking kmemcheck broken to prevent new users
as well. Let that go in for a release, and then start removing it
afterward.

-- Steve