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

Zi Yan
2025-04-07T20:13:06Z

On 7 Apr 2025, at 16:05, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> 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(+)

Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

I am happy to help review patches for page allocator and
compaction too. Should I send a separate patch to add myself?
Or you can add

R: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

in your next version?

>
> 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>
> --
> 2.49.0

Best Regards,
Yan, Zi