[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

Unfortunately my workload is such that I simply no longer have the time to
give THP the focus that it deserves.

So, at least temporarily, step down from the role.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
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 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e05570c393c5..579562c43df4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -17321,7 +17321,6 @@ F:	mm/swapfile.c
 MEMORY MANAGEMENT - THP (TRANSPARENT HUGE PAGE)
 M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 M:	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
-M:	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
 R:	Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
 R:	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
 R:	Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>

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base-commit: 0a0d1d55dad570724bf8c7ea83409639cfb4be9b
change-id: 20260824-drop-thp-maintainership-236b78e15237

Best regards,
-- 
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 8/26/26 11:56, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> Unfortunately my workload is such that I simply no longer have the time to
> give THP the focus that it deserves.

THP is, unfortunately, one of the busiest MM components, and also the ones where
we have to deal with significant legacy code, many suboptimal past design
decisions ... and plenty of ideas for improvements that require constant
pushback to not make the situation even worse. The time spent on discussions
alone is massive.

Fortunately we have a growing list of reviewers.

It's mostly thankless work, really; but I'd like to express my sincere gratitude
for all the work you put into co-maintaing THP over (/me checks MAINTAINERS)
more than 1 year!
> 
> So, at least temporarily, step down from the role.
> 

I'm sorry but I can't let you go entirely ;) I'll make sure to CC you on patches
that need your feedback!

Thanks again, Lorenzo!

-- 
Cheers,

David

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 12:09:31PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 8/26/26 11:56, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > Unfortunately my workload is such that I simply no longer have the time to
> > give THP the focus that it deserves.
>
> THP is, unfortunately, one of the busiest MM components, and also the ones where
> we have to deal with significant legacy code, many suboptimal past design
> decisions ... and plenty of ideas for improvements that require constant
> pushback to not make the situation even worse. The time spent on discussions
> alone is massive.

Yes indeed. It was a very difficult decision, but the sheer throughput and
attention required has reached a point where it's become infeasible for me
time-wise.

I do hate to leave you with all of that, but you can always ask me to pop
into a discussion or cc- me, so hopefully that'll help :)

And as you say, we have an amazing community of reviewers who all help
enormously.

>
> Fortunately we have a growing list of reviewers.

Absolutely and I've really loved seeing how people have developed - Lance
in particular has grown wonderfully, Zi is a star, and in general every
single person doing THP review - thank you for all of your contributions :)

>
> It's mostly thankless work, really; but I'd like to express my sincere gratitude
> for all the work you put into co-maintaing THP over (/me checks MAINTAINERS)
> more than 1 year!

Thank you that's very kind of you to say! :) Thanks for being a great
co-maintainer!

> >
> > So, at least temporarily, step down from the role.
> >
>
> I'm sorry but I can't let you go entirely ;) I'll make sure to CC you on patches
> that need your feedback!

Absolutely, feel free :)

>
> Thanks again, Lorenzo!

Thanks :)

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David

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Cheers, Lorenzo