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Message-ID: <f4199b5f-8cfc-46a5-b985-34db03fcf7a9@lucifer.local>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 10:49:01 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for new VMA files

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 09:39:14AM GMT, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 7/3/24 1:57 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > The vma files contain logic split from mmap.c for the most part and are all
> > relevant to VMA logic, so maintain the same reviewers for both.
>
> But it's still related to mmap.c a lot, so why not just rename that existing
> "MEMORY MAPPING" appropriately (how? haha) and expand it with the new files?

Yeah it's debatable, but I think going forward we may wish to to further
separate the concept of memory mapping logic and VMA manipulation in which
case it makes sense to keep them separated :)

>
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 098d214f78d9..ff3e113ed081 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -23971,6 +23971,19 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/vsockmon.h
> >  F:	net/vmw_vsock/
> >  F:	tools/testing/vsock/
> >
> > +VMA
> > +M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > +R:	Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
> > +R:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> > +R:	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> > +L:	linux-mm@...ck.org
> > +S:	Maintained
> > +W:	https://www.linux-mm.org
> > +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> > +F:	mm/vma.c
> > +F:	mm/vma.h
> > +F:	mm/vma_internal.h
> > +
> >  VMALLOC
> >  M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> >  R:	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
> > --
> > 2.45.2
>