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[67.164.59.41]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-12789a43a18sm19226688c88.13.2026.03.02.14.43.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:43:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 14:43:37 -0800 From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" , Dave Hansen , "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Convert x86/mm/pat to generic page table apis Message-ID: References: <20260219020354.321088-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com> <2fe139df-1764-40e5-983d-48d7f97c2e39@intel.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 12:55:10PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 3/2/26 12:27, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote: > >> I was actually kinda hoping you'd be able to actively go out and find > >> some reviewers other than the maintainers. > > I'd appreciate if you could give me more guidance on this. Who am I > > supposed to go, if not the people from ./get_maintainers? I don't know > > the x86 folks, I interact more with mm. > > Hi Vishal, > > I personally look at 'git blame' or 'git log' manually and see who's > been mucking around in the file recently. get_maintainers.pl does _some_ > of that, but I think it mostly looks at others who modified the sames > lines you did. That can be a bit too restrictive. > > It also couldn't hurt to take a quick look at lore for who's been > patching the files that you are, or commenting in threads. > > The more of that which you can manage to do this now is less of it that > I have to do later. Any effort in the area would be much appreciated! Thanks! I'll look around and cc them on future versions. > Oh, and if you have a friendly LLM, it doesn't hurt to dump your patches > in there and ask it. Couldn't hurt.