Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update MGLRU entry to reflect current status

[Kairui Song]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 3:06 AM Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We are moving to a far more proactive model of maintainership within mm and
> thus put a great deal of emphasis on sub-maintainers being active within
> the community both in terms of code contributions and review.
>
> The MGLRU has not had much activity since being added to the kernel and the
> current maintainers who kindly stepped up have unfortunately not been able
> to contribute a great deal to it for over a year, nor engage all that
> heavily in review.
>
> As a result, and within no negative connotations implied whatsoever, it
> seems appropriate to downgrade the current maintainers to reviewers.
>
> At this time nobody is quite exercising the maintainer role in this area of
> the kernel, but there is encouraging activity from a number of people who
> are trusted elsewhere in the kernel, and who have contributed relevant work
> or review.
>
> Therefore add further reviewers, and at this stage - to reflect the reality
> on the ground - we will not have any sub-maintainers listed at all.
>
> Each of the files listed are shared with other sections in MAINTAINERS, so
> this doesn't reduce sub-maintainer coverage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> (Apologies sent first version of this without MLs attached :)
>
>  MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 76431aa5efbe..16874c32e288 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -16757,8 +16757,12 @@ F:     mm/migrate_device.c
>
>  MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MGLRU (MULTI-GEN LRU)
>  M:     Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -M:     Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> -M:     Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:     Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot for the trust, I'm glad and willing to help review and
improve MGLRU.

Acked-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>