linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux next] MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop

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Message-Id: <20250721175223.26f8c81193dfc9baf8331937@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:52:23 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc: jiang.kun2@....com.cn, yang.yang29@....com.cn, xu.xin16@....com.cn,
 bbonev@...uan.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bsingharora@...il.com,
 wang.yaxin@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux next] MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:56:18 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:

> On 21/07/2025 03:40, jiang.kun2@....com.cn wrote:
> > From: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@....com.cn>
> > 
> > The delaytop tool supports showing system delays and task-level delays,
> > effectively identifying the top-n tasks with high latency in the system,
> > which is highly beneficial for improving system performance. Wang Yaxin
> > and her colleague Fan Yu focus on locating system delay issues. To promote
> > the thriving development of delaytop, we hope to serve as maintainers to
> > continuously improve it, aiming to provide a more effective solution for
> > system latency issues in the future.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@....com.cn>
> > Signed-off-by: Fan Yu <fan.yu9@....com.cn>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index d635369a4f6c..e6fec6b0055d 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -19524,6 +19524,16 @@ S:	Maintained
> >  F:	include/linux/delayacct.h
> >  F:	kernel/delayacct.c
> > 
> > +TASK DELAY MONITORING TOOLS
> > +M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > +M:	Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@....com.cn>
> 
> 
> There were no contributions from above address. Not a single
> contribution. Not a single review, not a single message or comment. If
> the person wants to review, why reviewing did not happen so far?

That because tools/accounting/delaytop.c was created by Wang Yaxin one
month ago.  It exists only in mm.git!

> > +M:	Fan Yu <fan.yu9@....com.cn>
> 
> And from here just one patchset not even related to delaytop.

If the creator of delaytop wishes to nominate someone else as a
comaintainer then I'm OK with that.

Sure, they haven't been very involved in getdelays but these
individuals presumably understand getdelays and nobody else has stepped
up, so I think the patch improves our situation.