Re: [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MGLRU (MULTI-GEN LRU) update

From: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)

Date: Tue Nov 10 2026 - 07:01:25 EST


On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 07:31:53PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> MGLRU is currently the only MM component without a dedicated component
> maintainer. Fortunately, Kairui and Barry have been actively
> contributing to MGLRU and have volunteered to take on more responsibility
> by officially taking care of it.
>
> Given that Kairui is already an established MM component maintainer in
> a related MM component (SWAP), add him as an MGLRU maintainer right away.
>
> For Barry, the idea is to transition him towards a component maintainer
> role over the coming months, starting by moving him to the top of the
> reviewer list.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>

Congrats Kairui and Barry! :)

I am so glad to see the proactive efforts people have made to get MGLRU moving
forwards again, it's a real success story in mm.

Thanks to everybody for their efforts in making this happen! :)

> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 222b7fc2c3aa..e7ac319a570c 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17635,10 +17635,10 @@ K: (?i:vmemmap)
>
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MGLRU (MULTI-GEN LRU)
> M: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -R: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +R: Barry Song <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>
> R: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
> R: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
> -R: Barry Song <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>
> R: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> R: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> R: Wei Xu <weixugc@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>

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Cheers, Lorenzo