Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add further core files to mm core section

[David Hildenbrand]

On 17.06.25 17:04, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 09:59:01AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 17.06.25 05:53, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 11:10:41PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > > On 16.06.25 22:38, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > > > There are a number of files which don't quite belong anywhere else, so
> > > > > place them in the core section. If we determine in future they belong
> > > > > elsewhere we can update incrementally but it is preferable that we assign
> > > > > each file to a section as best we can.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > REVIEWERS - let me know if these seem appropriate, I'm eyeballing
> > > > > this. even if they are not quite best placed a 'best effort' is still
> > > > > worthwhile so we establish a place to put all mm files, we can always
> > > > > incrementally update these later.
> > > > >
> > > > >     MAINTAINERS | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > > > >     1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > > index 4523a6409186..a61d56bd7aa4 100644
> > > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > > @@ -15740,10 +15740,6 @@ F:	include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > > > >     F:	include/linux/memory-tiers.h
> > > > >     F:	include/linux/mempolicy.h
> > > > >     F:	include/linux/mempool.h
> > > > > -F:	include/linux/memremap.h
> > > > > -F:	include/linux/mmzone.h
> > > > > -F:	include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> > > > > -F:	include/linux/pagewalk.h
> > > > >     F:	include/trace/events/ksm.h
> > > > >     F:	mm/
> > > > >     F:	tools/mm/
> > > >
> > > > Probably better to have some section than none ... was just briefly
> > > > wondering if "CORE" is the right section for some of that. Some of that
> > > > might be better of in a "MM MISC" section, maybe.
> > >
> > > Maybe rather than add files to MM CORE we should move mm/ there and add the
> > > MM MISC section for files we explicitly want to exclude from MM CORE?
> >
> > Also an option, yes,
>
> These suggestions seem to be roughly the same no? :)
>
> Maybe the MM section itself should just contain mm/ and we move everything else
> + stragglers to misc?
>
> Now who, whose's first name begins with 'D' and surname begins with 'H' should
> we put as M there... :P well...

Most of these files are fairly small with little activity, so I don't 
particularly care.

Happy once the real big things in there (e.g., OOM) have a dedicate section.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb