Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: move SLAB ALLOCATOR under MEMORY MANAGEMENT

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2026 at 05:34:49PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> Following David's consolidation of several other MM subcomponents, do
> the same for the slab allocator.
>
> Rename the section to MEMORY MANAGEMENT - SLAB ALLOCATOR and move it to
> remain in alphabetical order.
>
> Remove Andrew as M: to signify he's not the primary person for picking
> patches in this subcomponent. get_maintainers will continue CCing him on
> most patches via the catch-all MM entry. David prefers not being added
> for mail volume reasons.
>
> Indicate the primary integration branch (slab/for-next) in the T: entry.
> It will now be integrrated via the mm/linux integration tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

LGTM so:

Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d7cfb28a9029..e449ee3009ac 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17815,6 +17815,35 @@ F:	mm/shmem_quota.c
>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/memfd/
>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/tmpfs/
>
> +MEMORY MANAGEMENT - SLAB ALLOCATOR
> +M:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
> +M:	Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
> +R:	Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>
> +R:	Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
> +R:	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> +R:	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> +L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/slab.git slab/for-next
> +F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
> +F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst
> +F:	Documentation/mm/slab.rst
> +F:	include/linux/mempool.h
> +F:	include/linux/slab.h
> +F:	include/trace/events/kmem.h
> +F:	lib/tests/slub_kunit.c
> +F:	mm/failslab.c
> +F:	mm/mempool.c
> +F:	mm/slab.h
> +F:	mm/slab_common.c
> +F:	mm/slub.c
> +F:	scripts/gdb/linux/slab.py
> +F:	tools/cgroup/memcg_slabinfo.py
> +F:	tools/include/linux/slab.h
> +F:	tools/lib/slab.c
> +F:	tools/mm/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
> +F:	tools/mm/slabinfo.c
> +
>  MEMORY MANAGEMENT - SWAP
>  M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>  M:	Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
> @@ -25809,36 +25838,6 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/layouts/kontron,sl28-vpd.yaml
>  F:	drivers/nvmem/layouts/sl28vpd.c
>
> -SLAB ALLOCATOR
> -M:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
> -M:	Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
> -M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> -R:	Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>
> -R:	Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
> -R:	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> -R:	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> -L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
> -S:	Maintained
> -T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/slab.git
> -F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
> -F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst
> -F:	Documentation/mm/slab.rst
> -F:	include/linux/mempool.h
> -F:	include/linux/slab.h
> -F:	include/trace/events/kmem.h
> -F:	lib/tests/slub_kunit.c
> -F:	mm/failslab.c
> -F:	mm/mempool.c
> -F:	mm/slab.h
> -F:	mm/slab_common.c
> -F:	mm/slub.c
> -F:	scripts/gdb/linux/slab.py
> -F:	tools/cgroup/memcg_slabinfo.py
> -F:	tools/include/linux/slab.h
> -F:	tools/lib/slab.c
> -F:	tools/mm/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
> -F:	tools/mm/slabinfo.c
> -
>  SLCAN CAN NETWORK DRIVER
>  M:	Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>
>  L:	linux-can@vger.kernel.org
>
> --
> 2.56.0
>

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Cheers, Lorenzo