Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add memory advice section
From: Jann Horn
Date: Tue Apr 08 2025 - 14:57:20 EST
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM Lorenzo Stoakes
<lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +MEMORY MAPPING - MEMORY ADVICE
> +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
Is it intentional that this one, unlike "MEMORY MAPPING", has no
explicit "L: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx" and relies on the inheritance from
the overall "MEMORY MANAGEMENT" entry for that?