Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Add a MAINTAINERS category specific for the tracing ring-buffer

[Steven Rostedt]

Masami,

Can I get an official Acked-by on this?

Vincent, you can also give an Acked-by too.

-- Steve


On Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:40:35 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The ring buffer code in the tracing directory has always been decoupled
> from the tracing code. It had a clean abstracted API to allow it to be
> used by systems outside of tracing. The API even allowed the ring buffer
> code to be drastically changed without affecting the tracing sub-system.
> 
> Recently, Vincent Donnefort has been contributing a lot of work to enhance
> the ring buffer. He implemented the user space mappings and recently
> created a version to allow pKVM hypervisors to use the code to trace
> the hypervisor and expose the events to the user.
> 
> Create a separate category for maintaining the ring buffer code so that
> Vincent can become an official maintainer of it. His work has little to do
> with the tracing code itself. In the future, he may even be the main
> maintainer of the ring buffer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3a19da74d00c..71bd2f57055d 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -27778,6 +27778,22 @@ F:	kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c
>  F:	kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
>  F:	kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
>  
> +TRACING RING BUFFER
> +M:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +L:	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +L:	linux-trace-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +S:	Maintained
> +Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-trace-kernel/list/
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git
> +F:	Documentation/trace/ring-buffer*
> +F:	Documentation/trace/remotes.rst
> +F:	include/linux/ring-buffer*.h
> +F:	kernel/trace/*ring_buffer*.c
> +F:	kernel/trace/remote*.c
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/ring-buffer/
> +
>  TRADITIONAL CHINESE DOCUMENTATION
>  M:	Chen-Yu Yeh <chenyou910331@xxxxxxxxx>
>  M:	Weijie Yuan <wy@xxxxxxxxx>