linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add further core files to mm core section

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Message-ID: <5255e8ae-b9c5-40e5-8bf1-29cffa8a0137@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:46:02 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Andrew Morton
 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
 Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add further core files to mm core
 section

On 17.06.25 17:04, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 09:59:01AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 17.06.25 05:53, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 11:10:41PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> On 16.06.25 22:38, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>>>>> There are a number of files which don't quite belong anywhere else, so
>>>>> place them in the core section. If we determine in future they belong
>>>>> elsewhere we can update incrementally but it is preferable that we assign
>>>>> each file to a section as best we can.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> REVIEWERS - let me know if these seem appropriate, I'm eyeballing
>>>>> this. even if they are not quite best placed a 'best effort' is still
>>>>> worthwhile so we establish a place to put all mm files, we can always
>>>>> incrementally update these later.
>>>>>
>>>>>     MAINTAINERS | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>     1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>>> index 4523a6409186..a61d56bd7aa4 100644
>>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>>> @@ -15740,10 +15740,6 @@ F:	include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>>>>>     F:	include/linux/memory-tiers.h
>>>>>     F:	include/linux/mempolicy.h
>>>>>     F:	include/linux/mempool.h
>>>>> -F:	include/linux/memremap.h
>>>>> -F:	include/linux/mmzone.h
>>>>> -F:	include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
>>>>> -F:	include/linux/pagewalk.h
>>>>>     F:	include/trace/events/ksm.h
>>>>>     F:	mm/
>>>>>     F:	tools/mm/
>>>>
>>>> Probably better to have some section than none ... was just briefly
>>>> wondering if "CORE" is the right section for some of that. Some of that
>>>> might be better of in a "MM MISC" section, maybe.
>>>
>>> Maybe rather than add files to MM CORE we should move mm/ there and add the
>>> MM MISC section for files we explicitly want to exclude from MM CORE?
>>
>> Also an option, yes,
> 
> These suggestions seem to be roughly the same no? :)
> 
> Maybe the MM section itself should just contain mm/ and we move everything else
> + stragglers to misc?
> 
> Now who, whose's first name begins with 'D' and surname begins with 'H' should
> we put as M there... :P well...

Most of these files are fairly small with little activity, so I don't 
particularly care.

Happy once the real big things in there (e.g., OOM) have a dedicate section.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb