Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add mm GUP section

Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-12T13:06:44Z

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 08:54:53AM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
> On 12 May 2025, at 3:38, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
> > On 5/8/25 14:23, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> >>>
> >>> M for "PAGE ALLOCATOR", hmmm ..., I was hoping that Vlastimil might have
> >>> capacity for that? :)
> >>
> >> Vlastimil? ;)
> >>
> >> I'd certainly support this.
> >
> > OK, can do, thanks.
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Not 100% sure what to do with
> >>>
> >>> * include/linux/page_isolation.h
> >>> * mm/page_isolation.c
> >>>
> >>> (I hate the word "page isolation")
> >>>
> >>> They are mostly about page migration (either for alloc_contig... or memory
> >>> hotunplug). Likely they should either go to the MIGRATION section or to the
> >>> PAGE ALLOCATOR? Maybe MIGRATION makes more sense. Thoughts?
> >>
> >> I mean it explicitly relates to migrate type and migration so seems to me
> >> it ought to be in migration.
> >>
> >> Though migrate type + the machinary around it is a product of the physical
> >> page allocator (I even cover it in the 'physical memory' section of the
> >> book).
> >>
> >> I wonder if our soon-to-be page allocator maintainer Vlastimil has
> >> thoughts? ;)
> >>
> >> I'd vote for migration though to be honest.
> >
> > I checked the code briefly and although migratetypes are related to
> > migration, it seems rather page allocator code to me.
> >
> > In fact if I didn't miss these files, I would have included them when
> > proposing the PAGE ALLOCATOR section.
> > Zi Yan has a series on that topic now and is one of the R: in PAGE
> > ALLOCATOR. What do you think?
>
> I agree with Vlastimil that these two files belong to PAGE ALLOCATOR
> section. Page isolation (actually should be pageblock isolation) is
> doing work on pageblock migratetype, which IMHO is an important part
> of anti-fragmentation mechanism for page allocation.

Ack, will send a patch! :)

Thanks!

>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Yan, Zi