Re: [PATCH v6 mm-new 10/10] MAINTAINERS: add entry for BPF-based THP adjustment

[Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM Lorenzo Stoakes
<lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 03:19:48PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > Add maintainership entry for the experimental BPF-driven THP adjustment
> > feature. This experimental component may be removed in future releases.
> > I will help with maintenance tasks for this feature during its development
> > lifecycle.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 390829ae9803..71d0f7c58ce8 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -16239,6 +16239,7 @@ F:    Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> >  F:   include/linux/huge_mm.h
> >  F:   include/linux/khugepaged.h
> >  F:   include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
> > +F:   mm/bpf_thp.c
> >  F:   mm/huge_memory.c
> >  F:   mm/khugepaged.c
> >  F:   mm/mm_slot.h
> > @@ -16246,6 +16247,15 @@ F:   tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
> >  F:   tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
> >  F:   tools/testing/selftests/mm/transhuge-stress.c
> >
> > +MEMORY MANAGEMENT - THP WITH BPF SUPPORT
> > +M:   Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
> > +L:   bpf@vger.kernel.org
> > +L:   linux-mm@kvack.org
> > +S:   Maintained
> > +F:   mm/bpf_thp.c
> > +F:   tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/thp_adjust.c
> > +F:   tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_thp_adjust*
> > +
>
> Sorry but I don't agree with a separate section for this.
>
> This should form part of the THP section only, I don't think it's warranted to
> do elsewise.

I initially added it as a separate entry to ensure that
bpf@vger.kernel.org would be CCed. However, I discovered that any file
containing “bpf” will automatically CC that list. Therefore, it’s fine
to include this under the THP entry instead.


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Regards
Yafang