Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE

[David Hildenbrand]

On 23.07.25 11:58, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Add a MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC section to contain files that are not described
> by other sections, moving all but the catch-all mm/ and tools/mm/ from MEMORY
> MANAGEMENT to MEMORY MANAGEMENT - CORE and MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC as
> appropriate.

Curious: do we need the catch-all because of untracked files, or because 
of future files?

> In both sections add remaining missing files. At this point, with the other
> recent MAINTAINERS changes, this should now mean that every memory
> management-related file has a section and assigned maintainers/reviewers.
>
> Finally, we copy across the maintainers/reviewers from MEMORY MANAGEMENT -
> CORE to MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC, as it seems the two are sufficiently
> related for this to be sensible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2:
> * Propagate ack (thanks Mike!)
> * Retain MEMORY MANAGEMENT section to contain the global mm/ and tools/mm/
>    directories and remove from MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC section, I misunderstood
>    how these catch-alls would work. As reported by Vlastimil.
> * Update cover letter and subject to reflect the above.
>
> v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250722192704.164758-1-lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
>
>   MAINTAINERS | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>   1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 507a999f1955..5a9d4c57add4 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15741,22 +15741,8 @@ S:	Maintained
>   W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
>   T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
>   T:	quilt git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new
> -F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
> -F:	Documentation/mm/
> -F:	include/linux/gfp.h
> -F:	include/linux/gfp_types.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/mmzone.h
> -F:	include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> -F:	include/linux/pagewalk.h
> -F:	include/trace/events/ksm.h
>   F:	mm/
>   F:	tools/mm/
> -F:	tools/testing/selftests/mm/
> -N:	include/linux/page[-_]*
>
>   MEMORY MANAGEMENT - CORE
>   M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> @@ -15771,18 +15757,32 @@ 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/gfp.h
> +F:	include/linux/gfp_types.h
>   F:	include/linux/memory.h
>   F:	include/linux/mm.h
>   F:	include/linux/mm_*.h
> +F:	include/linux/mmzone.h
>   F:	include/linux/mmdebug.h
>   F:	include/linux/pagewalk.h
>   F:	kernel/fork.c
>   F:	mm/Kconfig
>   F:	mm/debug.c
> +F:	mm/folio-compat.c
> +F:	mm/highmem.c
>   F:	mm/init-mm.c
> +F:	mm/internal.h
> +F:	mm/maccess.c
>   F:	mm/memory.c
> +F:	mm/mmzone.c
>   F:	mm/pagewalk.c
> +F:	mm/pgtable-generic.c
> +F:	mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> +F:	mm/sparse.c
>   F:	mm/util.c
> +F:	mm/vmpressure.c
> +F:	mm/vmstat.c
> +N:	include/linux/page[-_]*
>
>   MEMORY MANAGEMENT - EXECMEM
>   M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> @@ -15844,6 +15844,46 @@ F:	mm/mempolicy.c
>   F:	mm/migrate.c
>   F:	mm/migrate_device.c
>
> +MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC
> +M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> +R:	Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> +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:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
> +F:	Documentation/mm/
> +F:	include/linux/memory-tiers.h
> +F:	include/linux/mempolicy.h

That is already under "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY POLICY AND MIGRATION"

> +F:	include/linux/mempool.h
> +F:	include/linux/memremap.h

That will be MEMORY_HOTPLUG, right?

> +F:	include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> +F:	include/trace/events/ksm.h

This is already in the KSM section.

> +F:	mm/backing-dev.c
> +F:	mm/cma.c
> +F:	mm/cma_debug.c
> +F:	mm/cma_sysfs.c
> +F:	mm/dmapool.c
> +F:	mm/dmapool_test.c
> +F:	mm/early_ioremap.c
> +F:	mm/fadvise.c
> +F:	mm/io-mapping.c
> +F:	mm/ioremap.c
> +F:	mm/mapping_dirty_helpers.c
> +F:	mm/memory-tiers.c
> +F:	mm/mmu_notifier.c
> +F:	mm/page_idle.c
> +F:	mm/pgalloc-track.h
> +F:	mm/process_vm_access.c
> +F:	mm/ptdump.c
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/mm/

Kind-of a catch-all as well.


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Cheers,

David / dhildenb