Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add missing files to slab section

From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Wed Jul 23 2025 - 06:16:41 EST


On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 12:07:39PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 7/22/25 19:59, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > The failslab implementation implements fault injection for slab allocations
> > so seems best suited to the slab section.
> >
> > The mempool implementation uses slab in the backend, so that seems best
> > suited here also.
>
> It has other backends too but perhaps slab is the most complex and David was
> involved so seems acceptable.

Thanks

>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > NOTE:
> >
> > To try to reduce conflicts with the latest batch of MAINTAINERS changes, I
> > think this is best merged through the slab tree.
> >
> > MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index e55accbef..2d5c844ab 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -15738,7 +15738,6 @@ F: include/linux/memfd.h
> > 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
>
> I'll leave out this hunk as your other patch moves the header entry from MM
> to MM-MISC (maybe it could be removing it there while at it?).

OK let's just fix this up later potentially, I don't want to create more
confusion at this stage :P

I guess with this being potentially used elsewhere, this actually makes sense.

>
> > @@ -22831,7 +22830,10 @@ S: Maintained
> > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab.git
> > F: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst
> > F: Documentation/mm/slab.rst
> > +F: include/linux/mempool.h
> > F: include/linux/slab.h
> > +F: mm/failslab.c
> > +F: mm/mempool.c
> > F: mm/slab.h
> > F: mm/slab_common.c
> > F: mm/slub.c
> > --
> > 2.50.1
>