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Message-ID: <f0bdf898-42bd-48ae-89a2-8f93b49d071f@lucifer.local>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 16:33:33 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add kernel/fork.c to relevant sections

+cc Christian

And Murphy's law dictates that I forget to add the pidfd bit. Fix-patch
included...

Adding pidfd as there's a fair chunk of pidfd code that lives in
kernel/fork.c. Obviously let me know Christian if you feel this makes
sense.

Thanks! And apologies for noise...

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:28:25PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Currently kernel/fork.c both contains absolutely key logic relating to a
> number of kernel subsystems and also has absolutely no assignment in
> MAINTAINERS.
>
> Correct this by placing this file in relevant sections - mm core, exec,
> scheduler and pidfd so people know who to contact when making changes here.
>
> scripts/get_maintainers.pl can perfectly well handle a file being in
> multiple sections, so this functions correctly.
>
> Intent is that we keep putting changes to kernel/fork.c through Andrew's
> tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index ccc45b0ba843..55332d5bc499 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -8830,6 +8830,7 @@ F:	include/linux/elf.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/elf.h
> +F:	kernel/fork.c
>  F:	mm/vma_exec.c
>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/exec/
>  N:	asm/elf.h
> @@ -15525,6 +15526,7 @@ F:	include/linux/mm.h
>  F:	include/linux/mm_*.h
>  F:	include/linux/mmdebug.h
>  F:	include/linux/pagewalk.h
> +F:	kernel/fork.c
>  F:	mm/Kconfig
>  F:	mm/debug.c
>  F:	mm/init-mm.c
> @@ -21742,6 +21744,7 @@ F:	include/linux/preempt.h
>  F:	include/linux/sched.h
>  F:	include/linux/wait.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> +F:	kernel/fork.c
>  F:	kernel/sched/
>
>  SCHEDULER - SCHED_EXT
> --
> 2.49.0
>

----8<----
>From 6ab14cfd38a34fc097207dd6b898004a87b9cfa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 16:30:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add missing pidfd entry

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 55332d5bc499..af1ab3ddc699 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -19135,6 +19135,7 @@ M:	Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
 L:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git
+F:	kernel/fork.c
 F:	samples/pidfd/
 F:	tools/testing/selftests/clone3/
 F:	tools/testing/selftests/pid_namespace/
--
2.49.0