Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add memory advice section
From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Wed Apr 09 2025 - 01:17:57 EST
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:56:30PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> 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>
Thanks!
>
> > +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?
No, was a mistake, have asked Andrew to fix in a fixpatch! Good
spot... whoops!