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On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 10:49:38AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> This is really my main concern about this whole work. Not only it adds a
> considerable maintenance burden to the core MM because

[citation needed]

> it adds on top of
> our existing allocator layers complexity but it would need to spread beyond
> MM to be useful because it is usually outside of MM where leaks happen.

If you want the tracking to happen at a different level of the call stack, just
call _kmalloc() directly and call alloc_tag_add()/sub() yourself.