Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add kernel/fork.c to relevant sections

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:28:25PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Currently kernel/fork.c both contains absolutely key logic relating to a
> number of kernel subsystems and also has absolutely no assignment in
> MAINTAINERS.
> 
> Correct this by placing this file in relevant sections - mm core, exec,
> scheduler and pidfd so people know who to contact when making changes here.
> 
> scripts/get_maintainers.pl can perfectly well handle a file being in
> multiple sections, so this functions correctly.
> 
> Intent is that we keep putting changes to kernel/fork.c through Andrew's
> tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index ccc45b0ba843..55332d5bc499 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -8830,6 +8830,7 @@ F:	include/linux/elf.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/elf.h
> +F:	kernel/fork.c
>  F:	mm/vma_exec.c
>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/exec/
>  N:	asm/elf.h
> @@ -15525,6 +15526,7 @@ F:	include/linux/mm.h
>  F:	include/linux/mm_*.h
>  F:	include/linux/mmdebug.h
>  F:	include/linux/pagewalk.h
> +F:	kernel/fork.c
>  F:	mm/Kconfig
>  F:	mm/debug.c
>  F:	mm/init-mm.c
> @@ -21742,6 +21744,7 @@ F:	include/linux/preempt.h
>  F:	include/linux/sched.h
>  F:	include/linux/wait.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> +F:	kernel/fork.c
>  F:	kernel/sched/
>  
>  SCHEDULER - SCHED_EXT
> -- 
> 2.49.0
>