diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/BUILD b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/BUILD
index e3d2e77a966..ae3d7681c0e 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/BUILD
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ go_library(
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
     deps = [
         "//pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager:go_default_library",
+        "//pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/checksum:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/errors:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/cm/cpuset:go_default_library",
-        "//pkg/kubelet/util/store:go_default_library",
-        "//pkg/util/hash:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/golang/glog:go_default_library",
     ],
 )
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/checkpoint.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/checkpoint.go
index 11cfec257ab..40e0fc81ad3 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/checkpoint.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/checkpoint.go
@@ -18,55 +18,50 @@ package state
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
-	"hash/fnv"
 
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager"
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/errors"
-	hashutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/hash"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/checksum"
 )
 
 var _ checkpointmanager.Checkpoint = &CPUManagerCheckpoint{}
 
 // CPUManagerCheckpoint struct is used to store cpu/pod assignments in a checkpoint
 type CPUManagerCheckpoint struct {
-	PolicyName    string
-	DefaultCPUSet string
-	Entries       map[string]string
-	Checksum      uint64
+	PolicyName    string            `json:"policyName"`
+	DefaultCPUSet string            `json:"defaultCpuSet"`
+	Entries       map[string]string `json:"entries,omitempty"`
+	Checksum      checksum.Checksum `json:"checksum"`
 }
 
 // NewCPUManagerCheckpoint returns an instance of Checkpoint
 func NewCPUManagerCheckpoint() *CPUManagerCheckpoint {
-	return &CPUManagerCheckpoint{Entries: make(map[string]string)}
+	return &CPUManagerCheckpoint{
+		Entries: make(map[string]string),
+	}
 }
 
 // MarshalCheckpoint returns marshalled checkpoint
 func (cp *CPUManagerCheckpoint) MarshalCheckpoint() ([]byte, error) {
+	// make sure checksum wasn't set before so it doesn't affect output checksum
+	cp.Checksum = 0
+	cp.Checksum = checksum.New(cp)
 	return json.Marshal(*cp)
 }
 
 // UnmarshalCheckpoint tries to unmarshal passed bytes to checkpoint
 func (cp *CPUManagerCheckpoint) UnmarshalCheckpoint(blob []byte) error {
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(blob, cp); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if cp.Checksum != cp.GetChecksum() {
-		return errors.ErrCorruptCheckpoint
-	}
-	return nil
+	return json.Unmarshal(blob, cp)
 }
 
-// GetChecksum returns calculated checksum of checkpoint
-func (cp *CPUManagerCheckpoint) GetChecksum() uint64 {
-	orig := cp.Checksum
+// VerifyChecksum verifies that current checksum of checkpoint is valid
+func (cp *CPUManagerCheckpoint) VerifyChecksum() error {
+	if cp.Checksum == 0 {
+		// accept empty checksum for compatibility with old file backend
+		return nil
+	}
+	ck := cp.Checksum
 	cp.Checksum = 0
-	hash := fnv.New32a()
-	hashutil.DeepHashObject(hash, *cp)
-	cp.Checksum = orig
-	return uint64(hash.Sum32())
-}
-
-// UpdateChecksum calculates and updates checksum of the checkpoint
-func (cp *CPUManagerCheckpoint) UpdateChecksum() {
-	cp.Checksum = cp.GetChecksum()
+	err := ck.Verify(cp)
+	cp.Checksum = ck
+	return err
 }
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/state_checkpoint.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/state_checkpoint.go
index d660a1ecb05..8f3e5112cae 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/state_checkpoint.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/state_checkpoint.go
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/errors"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpuset"
-	utilstore "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/util/store"
 )
 
 // cpuManagerCheckpointName is the name of checkpoint file
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/state_checkpoint_test.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/state_checkpoint_test.go
index 9d30d5dca05..199d035c6eb 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/state_checkpoint_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/state_checkpoint_test.go
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func TestCheckpointStateRestore(t *testing.T) {
 				"PolicyName": "none",
 				"DefaultCPUSet": "4-6",
 				"Entries": {},
-				"Checksum": 861251554
+				"Checksum": 2912033808
 			}`,
 			"none",
 			"",
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ func TestCheckpointStateRestore(t *testing.T) {
 					"container1": "4-6",
 					"container2": "1-3"
 				},
-				"Checksum": 2604807655
+				"Checksum": 1535905563
 			}`,
 			"none",
 			"",
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ func TestCheckpointStateRestore(t *testing.T) {
 				"PolicyName": "other",
 				"DefaultCPUSet": "1-3",
 				"Entries": {},
-				"Checksum": 4266067046
+				"Checksum": 4195836012
 			}`,
 			"none",
 			`configured policy "none" differs from state checkpoint policy "other"`,
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ func TestCheckpointStateRestore(t *testing.T) {
 				"PolicyName": "none",
 				"DefaultCPUSet": "1.3",
 				"Entries": {},
-				"Checksum": 4073769779
+				"Checksum": 1025273327
 			}`,
 			"none",
 			`could not parse default cpu set "1.3": strconv.Atoi: parsing "1.3": invalid syntax`,
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func TestCheckpointStateRestore(t *testing.T) {
 					"container1": "4-6",
 					"container2": "asd"
 				},
-				"Checksum": 3835486974
+				"Checksum": 2764213924
 			}`,
 			"none",
 			`could not parse cpuset "asd" for container id "container2": strconv.Atoi: parsing "asd": invalid syntax`,
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/testing/util.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/testing/util.go
index c18c64cc10f..d39e3321a08 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/testing/util.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state/testing/util.go
@@ -35,10 +35,7 @@ func (mc *MockCheckpoint) UnmarshalCheckpoint(blob []byte) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// GetChecksum fakes getting checksum
-func (mc *MockCheckpoint) GetChecksum() uint64 {
-	return 0
+// VerifyChecksum fakes verifying checksum
+func (mc *MockCheckpoint) VerifyChecksum() error {
+	return nil
 }
-
-// UpdateChecksum fakes updating cheksum
-func (mc *MockCheckpoint) UpdateChecksum() {}