Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add an entry for MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY MAP
From: Muchun Song
Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 09:41:14 EST
> On Oct 19, 2026, at 19:34, Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Split out files related to SPARSE and SPARSE_VMEMMAP management from
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - CORE into a dedicated entry.
>
> Also include architecture specific sparsemem.h headers, pfn_to_page() and
> page_to_pfn() conversions and Documentation/mm/memory-model.rst.
>
> Muchun, who did a lot of work cleaning up SPARSE_VMEMMAP and extending
> vmemmap optimization, volunteered to help with the maintenance.
Thanks for your trust. Happy to help maintain this.
>
> David and I will continue to look after that part of the mm subsystem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks.
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 18 +++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f53047aa8d3c..b468ecdf8c65 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17161,9 +17161,6 @@ F: mm/mmzone.c
> F: mm/pagewalk.c
> F: mm/pgtable-generic.c
> F: mm/ptdump.c
> -F: mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> -F: mm/sparse.c
> -F: mm/sparse.h
> F: mm/util.c
> F: mm/vmpressure.c
> F: mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -17210,6 +17207,21 @@ F: include/trace/events/ksm.h
> F: mm/ksm.c
> F: mm/mm_slot.h
>
> +MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY MAP
> +M: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
> +M: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +M: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +L: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> +S: Maintained
> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git memmap
> +F: Documentation/mm/memory-model.rst
> +F: arch/*/include/asm/sparsemem.h
> +F: include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
> +F: mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> +F: mm/sparse.c
> +F: mm/sparse.h
> +K: (?i:vmemmap)
> +
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MGLRU (MULTI-GEN LRU)
> M: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> R: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> base-commit: 24a19b953e2a3d0ea5a8c4951a0ab8f32720c907
> change-id: 20261019-memmap-maint-72fec54e6752
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
>