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

From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Wed Jul 23 2025 - 11:20:40 EST


On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 05:13:05PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 7/23/25 17:05, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Please apply the attached fix-patch removing duplicated header files
> > accidentally included in the MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC section, as pointed
> > out by David.
> >
> > Thanks, Lorenzo
> >
> > ----8<----
> > From 9a94ef4511f6d0cb39f5edcc963b2aadc11febed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:02:27 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove duplicated header files from mm misc
> > section
> >
> > These are present in other sections already, so remove them.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 3 ---
> > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 5a9d4c57add4..5a6cb44635a2 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -15860,11 +15860,8 @@ 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
> > F: include/linux/mempool.h
>
> You could take out this one too as it's going to SLAB via my tree?

You said you weren't taking this, I assumed in general...

https://lore.kernel.org/all/a3f60194-3498-4dce-b0f0-e16e706f66ee@xxxxxxx/

...but from off list now I see you meant you were adding but not removing.


Andrew - if it's easy could you drop "include/linux/mempool.h" from here.

If not it's not a big deal to have this in both sections briefly... :)

Thanks, Lorenzo

>
> > -F: include/linux/memremap.h
> > F: include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> > -F: include/trace/events/ksm.h
> > F: mm/backing-dev.c
> > F: mm/cma.c
> > F: mm/cma_debug.c
> > --
> > 2.50.1
>