linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add mm GUP section

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Message-ID: <642e64e5-97a5-4c3f-8c4d-8cd4a6e3da58@lucifer.local>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 19:50:52 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add mm GUP section

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 07:43:44PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 08.05.25 18:03, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > I feel we should probably add mm/oom_kill.c, include/linux/mman.h,
> > mm/internal.h to mm core as a few more key files. What do you think?
>
> The latte two likely yes.
>
> Hmm, one could argue that oom_kill might be memory reclaim related.

I suppose it's an extreme form of reclaim :) or the ultimate state of reclaim,
and of course invoked by reclaim so yeah that makes sense...

I guess when I un-RFC the reclaim patch I can add it in :)

>
> Fortunately, that code is not too complicated ...

Well we're about to have BPF OOM killer right? So this might change soon... it's
also why this came to mind.

>
> >
> > We're probably going to be working through a bunch of stragglers for some
> > time I feel :)
>
> Yeah, there are many files ...

I guess key point is to lay the foundations so we can iterate more over time :)

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David / dhildenb
>