* + maintainers-route-more-mm-changes-through-mm-coregit.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch
@ 2026-11-01 20:32 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-11-01 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The patch titled
Subject: MAINTAINERS: route more MM changes through mm/core.git
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
maintainers-route-more-mm-changes-through-mm-coregit.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/maintainers-route-more-mm-changes-through-mm-coregit.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: MAINTAINERS: route more MM changes through mm/core.git
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:34:31 +0100
Let's start routing more components I (co)maintain through mm/core.git.
Update the git trees by pointing them at the for-next branch:
- 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)
Leave out MISC for now.
This change doesn't imply that all changes to these components will
immediately be routed through that tree; in particular changes that cover
other components, or severe conflicts will require coordination with
Andrew's tree.
So this marks merely the start of "mm/core.git will start picking
relevant material for these components".
Remove Andrew from these components to set the expectation that he won't be
the primary person picking stuff for these components; he is listed as
maintainer under the generic "MEMORY MANAGEMENT" and will get CCed on most
changes, and can keep an eye on stuff that falls through the cracks
(thanks!).
While at it, drop the link to http://www.linux-mm.org: it's not
particularly useful in 2026.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261030-maintainers-v1-7-97278f8a5f54@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xu Xin <xu.xin@linux.dev>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
---
MAINTAINERS | 31 +++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
--- a/MAINTAINERS~maintainers-route-more-mm-changes-through-mm-coregit
+++ a/MAINTAINERS
@@ -17429,18 +17429,15 @@ F: mm/alloc_tag.c
F: tools/testing/selftests/alloc_tag/
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON
-M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
L: virtualization@lists.linux.dev
S: Maintained
-W: http://www.linux-mm.org
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: include/linux/balloon.h
F: mm/balloon.c
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - CORE
-M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
R: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
R: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
@@ -17450,8 +17447,7 @@ R: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com
R: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
S: Maintained
-W: http://www.linux-mm.org
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
F: Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst
F: fs/proc/meminfo.c
@@ -17509,15 +17505,13 @@ F: include/linux/execmem.h
F: mm/execmem.c
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - GUP (GET USER PAGES)
-M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
R: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
R: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
S: Maintained
-W: http://www.linux-mm.org
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
F: mm/gup.c
F: mm/gup_test.c
@@ -17527,14 +17521,12 @@ F: tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup.c
F: tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging)
-M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
R: Xu Xin <xu.xin@linux.dev>
R: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
S: Maintained
-W: http://www.linux-mm.org
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
F: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
F: Documentation/mm/ksm.rst
@@ -17549,6 +17541,7 @@ M: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
L: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
F: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
F: Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst
@@ -17597,7 +17590,6 @@ F: mm/vmscan.c
F: mm/workingset.c
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MIGRATION
-M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
R: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
R: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
@@ -17608,8 +17600,7 @@ R: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.
R: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
S: Maintained
-W: http://www.linux-mm.org
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: include/linux/migrate.h
F: include/linux/migrate_mode.h
F: include/trace/events/migrate.h
@@ -17681,7 +17672,6 @@ F: mm/numa_emulation.c
F: mm/numa_memblks.c
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - NUMA PLACEMENT
-M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
M: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
R: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
@@ -17690,8 +17680,7 @@ R: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
R: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
S: Maintained
-W: http://www.linux-mm.org
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-memory-tiers
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-mempolicy
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-mempolicy-weighted-interleave
@@ -17765,7 +17754,6 @@ F: mm/vmscan.c
F: mm/workingset.c
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - RMAP (REVERSE MAPPING)
-M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
M: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
R: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
@@ -17776,6 +17764,7 @@ R: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
R: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
S: Maintained
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: include/linux/rmap.h
F: mm/interval_tree.c
F: mm/page_vma_mapped.c
@@ -17833,7 +17822,6 @@ F: mm/swap_table.h
F: mm/swapfile.c
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - THP (TRANSPARENT HUGE PAGE)
-M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
M: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
R: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
@@ -17847,8 +17835,7 @@ R: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
R: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
S: Maintained
-W: http://www.linux-mm.org
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/core.git for-next
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage
F: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
F: include/linux/huge_mm.h
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@kernel.org are
mm-fix-address-wraparound-when-scanning-large-folio-ptes.patch
mm-hugetlb-disable-pmd-sharing-for-uffd-missing-mode.patch
mm-vma-write-lock-source-vma-before-duplicating-it-in-__split_vma.patch
mm-madvise-preserve-vma_softdirty_bit-when-changing-anonymous-names.patch
mm-memory-failure-fix-folio-refcount-leak-and-min_order_for_split-locking.patch
maintainers-mention-for-next-branch-in-memory-management-memory-map.patch
maintainers-tmpfs-shmem-filesystem-updates.patch
maintainers-add-zi-yan-as-co-maintainer-for-memory-management-thp.patch
maintainers-sort-entries-in-mm-sections.patch
maintainers-add-missing-files-to-mm-component-sections.patch
maintainers-rename-and-move-memory-hotunplug.patch
maintainers-route-more-mm-changes-through-mm-coregit.patch
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