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

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Message-ID: <0008a3ea-ae9b-4425-b3e8-c6eedf9bb7f3@lucifer.local>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:16:07 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
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 Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 12:07:39PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 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.

Thanks

>
> >
> > 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?).

OK let's just fix this up later potentially, I don't want to create more
confusion at this stage :P

I guess with this being potentially used elsewhere, this actually makes sense.

>
> > @@ -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
>