Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry

[Onur Özkan]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:28:30 -0700
Boqun Feng <boqun@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have two pull requests on Rust synchronization primitives with 10+
> patches in a row for recent cycles, so it makes sense to start the
> effort of handling this area as a group.
> 
> Luckily for me, Gary Guo and Alice Ryhl agreed to help as
> co-maintainers, and we also have a talented group of reviewers:
> 
> Lyude Paul started the SpinLockIrq work [1] and did an amazing job at
> improving the design and implementation.
> 
> Daniel Almeida resolved the Lock<T: !Unpin> issue [2] and he did a fair
> amount of reviews in areas related to synchronization primitives
> already.
> 
> Onur Özkan started the ww_mutex work [3] and did an amazing job at
> consolidating various design requirements and decisions.
> 
> Of course, this only reflects my own knowledge, and I believe they did
> way more outside what I'm aware of ;-)
> 
> Note that having this MAINTAINERS entry is meant to bring more people
> to help on the synchronization primitives in Rust, which means for patch
> submissions and design discussion, please still involve the
> corresponding maintainers (e.g. LOCKING and ATOMIC),
> scripts/get_maintainers.pl should have this covered.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20260302232154.861916-1-lyude@xxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250828-lock-t-when-t-is-pinned-v2-0-b067c4b93fd6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20260103073554.34855-1-work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [3]
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 55af015174a5..220dee78b225 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -23183,6 +23183,20 @@ T:	git https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux.git alloc-next
>  F:	rust/kernel/alloc.rs
>  F:	rust/kernel/alloc/
>  
> +RUST [SYNC]
> +M:	Boqun Feng <boqun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	"Onur Özkan" <work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +L:	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +L:	rust-for-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +S:	Maintained
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/boqun/linux.git rust-sync
> +F:	rust/kernel/sync.rs
> +F:	rust/kernel/sync/
> +
>  RUST [NUM]
>  M:	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  R:	Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
> -- 
> 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
> 

Acked-by: Onur Özkan <work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>