Re: [PATCH 0/7] MAINTAINERS: MM updates

[SJ Park]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:34:24 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> several MM updates:
> 
> Make Zi Yan a THP maintainer (thanks for all your hard work over
> the years and thanks for taking on this responsibility), and perform some
> MM MAINTAINERS cleanups.

Congrats and thank you for stepping up, Zi!

> 
> Then, start the next step of the transition from Andrew's MM tree to
> separate component trees that all get integrated into the mm-next
> integration tree.
> 
> Start routing shmem through mm/core.git, adding me as a maintainer
> primarily to pick patches.
> 
> Then, target the following components for the mm/core.git tree that I
> (co)maintain:
> 
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - CORE
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - GUP (GET USER PAGES)
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging)
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY HOT(UN)PLUG
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MIGRATION
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - NUMA PLACEMENT
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - RMAP (REVERSE MAPPING)
>      - MEMORY MANAGEMENT - THP (TRANSPARENT HUGE PAGE)
> 
> More details in the last patch.
> 
> In the upcoming cycles we'll then route more of the other MM components
> through different trees.
> 
> Let's see how this goes, in particular with the continuous stream of
> fixes. But getting these in in a controlled way has highest priority
> right now wither way.

All makes sense to me.  Thank you for this great work, David.

> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

For the entire series,

Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
SJ

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