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

Vlastimil Babka
2025-04-07T20:14:04Z

On 4/7/25 22:12, Zi Yan wrote:
> 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>

Thanks.

> 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?

Sure, will do, thanks!

>>
>> 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