linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add kernel/fork.c to relevant sections

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Message-ID: <0e4a6c75-a5f0-42e1-a01c-2df1fc4f142d@lucifer.local>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 14:16:22 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        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
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add kernel/fork.c to relevant sections

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 03:04:33PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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>
>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

Thanks!

Non-RFC'd version will be going out soon.

>
> > ---
> >  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
> >