Re: [RFC PATCH 57/57] MAINTAINERS: add an entry for collapse
From: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 04:04:55 EST
On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 11:46:09PM +0100, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote:
> From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Collapse is now its own body of code: mm/collapse.c, a header stating what
> it offers a caller, and its own tracepoint family. It has two callers,
> the khugepaged daemon and MADV_COLLAPSE, rather than living inside one of
> them.
>
> Add a section for it, and move what belongs to it out of the THP entry:
> khugepaged.c and its header, the trace header, the selftests, and
> mm_slot.h.
>
> The selftests are matched as khugepaged*.c, which also covers the race and
> sync-check harnesses the THP entry did not list. mm_slot.h stays listed
> under KSM as well, which is the other user of it.
>
> Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7c179b333e4e..4e4e5030b979 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -16955,6 +16955,20 @@ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> F: include/linux/balloon.h
> F: mm/balloon.c
>
> +MEMORY MANAGEMENT - COLLAPSE
> +M: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +L: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> +S: Maintained
> +W: http://www.linux-mm.org
> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> +F: include/linux/khugepaged.h
> +F: include/trace/events/collapse.h
> +F: mm/collapse.c
> +F: mm/collapse.h
> +F: mm/khugepaged.c
> +F: mm/mm_slot.h
> +F: tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged*.c
> +
I'll look through the series properly, but presumably this is a separation of
the THP collapse logic, and therefore should have the same maintainers/reviewers
as the rest of THP.
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - CORE
> M: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> M: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> @@ -17272,12 +17286,7 @@ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage
> F: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> F: include/linux/huge_mm.h
> -F: include/linux/khugepaged.h
> -F: include/trace/events/collapse.h
> F: mm/huge_memory.c
> -F: mm/khugepaged.c
> -F: mm/mm_slot.h
> -F: tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
> F: tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
> F: tools/testing/selftests/mm/transhuge-stress.c
>
> --
> 2.54.0
>
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Cheers, Lorenzo