[RFC PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: add MM subsection for the page allocator

Vlastimil Babka
2025-04-07T20:05:25Z

Add a subsection for the page allocator, including compaction as it's
crucial for high-order allocations and works together with the
anti-fragmentation features. Volunteer myself as a reviewer.

Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
Extra reviewers would be welcome, including/not limited the people I
Cc'd based on my recollection and get_maintainers --git
Also if I missed any related file please lmk. Thanks.

MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4fe7cf5fc4ea..610636f622b1 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15511,6 +15511,16 @@ F: mm/numa.c
F: mm/numa_emulation.c
F: mm/numa_memblks.c

+MEMORY MANAGEMENT - PAGE ALLOCATOR
+M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
+R: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
+L: linux-mm@kvack.org
+S: Maintained
+F: mm/compaction.c
+F: mm/page_alloc.c
+F: include/linux/gfp.h
+F: include/linux/compaction.h
+
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - SECRETMEM
M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
M: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
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