Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add additional mmap-related files to mmap section

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Mon Jun 16 2025 - 17:17:25 EST


On 16.06.25 22:35, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
msync and nommu are directly related to memory mapping, memfd and mincore
are less so but are roughly speaking operating on virtual memory mappings
from the point of view of the user so this seems the most appropriate place
for them.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
MAINTAINERS | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4523a6409186..a5d1ff923a62 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15735,7 +15735,6 @@ F: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
F: Documentation/mm/
F: include/linux/gfp.h
F: include/linux/gfp_types.h
-F: include/linux/memfd.h
F: include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
F: include/linux/memory-tiers.h
F: include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -15974,12 +15973,17 @@ L: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
S: Maintained
W: http://www.linux-mm.org
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
+F: include/linux/memfd.h
F: include/trace/events/mmap.h
+F: mm/memfd.c

This is much more shmem related than it is mapping related (I mean, there is almost nothing mapping related in there)?

+F: mm/mincore.c
F: mm/mlock.c
F: mm/mmap.c
F: mm/mprotect.c
F: mm/mremap.c
F: mm/mseal.c
+F: mm/msync.c
+F: mm/nommu.c

There is a lot of mmap logic in there, correct. + a bunch of other weird things ... :(

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb