linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add missing files to slab section

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Message-ID: <a3f60194-3498-4dce-b0f0-e16e706f66ee@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:07:39 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
 Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add missing files to slab section

On 7/22/25 19:59, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> The failslab implementation implements fault injection for slab allocations
> so seems best suited to the slab section.
> 
> The mempool implementation uses slab in the backend, so that seems best
> suited here also.

It has other backends too but perhaps slab is the most complex and David was
involved so seems acceptable.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> ---
> NOTE:
> 
> To try to reduce conflicts with the latest batch of MAINTAINERS changes, I
> think this is best merged through the slab tree.
> 
>  MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index e55accbef..2d5c844ab 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15738,7 +15738,6 @@ F:	include/linux/memfd.h
>  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

I'll leave out this hunk as your other patch moves the header entry from MM
to MM-MISC (maybe it could be removing it there while at it?).

> @@ -22831,7 +22830,10 @@ S:	Maintained
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab.git
>  F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst
>  F:	Documentation/mm/slab.rst
> +F:	include/linux/mempool.h
>  F:	include/linux/slab.h
> +F:	mm/failslab.c
> +F:	mm/mempool.c
>  F:	mm/slab.h
>  F:	mm/slab_common.c
>  F:	mm/slub.c
> --
> 2.50.1