linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again

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Message-ID: <20170927152445.pe5ah3hq5hwup75z@sasha-lappy>
Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:24:48 +0000
From:   "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
CC:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck again

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 05:02:07PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>This is just too large to review manually. How have you generated the
>patch?

Manualy. Note that most of it (~95%) is the result of 'rm arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck'.

Otherwise, I just removed all uses of __GFP_NOWARN/SLAB_NOWARN, and calls to
various annotations throughout the code.

I'm not sure about i386 breakage, will take a look, doesn't seem to be too obvious.

-- 

Thanks,
Sasha