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

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Message-ID: <29c2ba4f-4099-4427-9721-cf9d5a728d20@lucifer.local>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 12:52:09 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>,
        Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>,
        Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>, Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add mm swap section

On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 08:20:50AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 06/02/25 at 04:20pm, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > In furtherance of ongoing efforts to ensure people are aware of who
> > de-facto maintains/has an interest in specific parts of mm, as well trying
> > to avoid get_maintainers.pl listing only Andrew and the mailing list for
> > mm files - establish a swap memory management section and add relevant
> > maintainers/reviewers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> > ---
> > REVIEWERS NOTE:
> >
> > I have taken a look at recent work on the swap and chosen a list of people
> > who seem to be regular and recent contributors/reviewers.
> >
> > Please let me know if I missed anybody, or if anybody doesn't wish to be
> > added here.
> >
> > I also realise we have a bunch of non-swap stuff living in some of these
> > files - we will have to address this separately :)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >  MAINTAINERS | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index e66460861bdf..3386272f6bf4 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -15674,6 +15674,25 @@ S:	Maintained
> >  F:	include/linux/secretmem.h
> >  F:	mm/secretmem.c
> >
> > +MEMORY MANAGEMENT - SWAP
> > +M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > +R:	Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
> > +R:	Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
> > +R:	Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> > +R:	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
> > +R:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> > +R:	Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>
> > +R:	Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>
> > +L:	linux-mm@...ck.org
> > +S:	Maintained
> > +F:	include/linux/swap.h
> > +F:	include/linux/swapfile.h
> > +F:	include/linux/swapops.h
> > +F:	mm/swap.c
> > +F:	mm/swap.h
> > +F:	mm/swap_state.c
> > +F:	mm/swapfile.c
>
> I am happy to help review swap related codes. Thanks.
>
> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>

Thanks!

>
> And by the way, mm/page_io.c may need be put under swap scope either?
>

Yeah I think you're right, will add to un-RFC'd version! That is... an unhelpful
filename :)