Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add memory advice section
From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Tue Apr 08 2025 - 13:16:08 EST
On 4/8/25 19:00, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> * Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> [250408 12:11]:
>> The madvise code straddles both VMA and page table manipulation. As a
>> result, separate it out into its own section and add maintainers/reviewers
>> as appropriate.
>>
>> We additionally include the mman-common.h file as this contains the shared
>> madvise flags and it is important we maintain this alongside madvise.c.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
>
>> ---
>> MAINTAINERS | 13 +++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index de97cd54ff24..325424a53acf 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -15552,6 +15552,19 @@ F: mm/vma.h
>> F: mm/vma_internal.h
>> F: tools/testing/vma/
>>
>> +MEMORY MAPPING - MEMORY ADVICE
>
> Advice or advise?
For me "MADVISE" would be the most obvious but I don't really mind either way.
>> +M: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> +M: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> +M: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> +M: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> +R: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
>> +R: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> +S: Maintained
>> +W: http://www.linux-mm.org
>> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
>> +F: include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
>> +F: mm/madvise.c
>> +
>> MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
>> M: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> M: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
>> --
>> 2.49.0
>>