Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update MEMORY MAPPING section

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 12/11/24 11:53, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Update the MEMORY MAPPING section to contain VMA logic as it makes no
> sense to have these two sections separate.
> 
> Additionally, add files which permit changes to the attributes and/or
> ranges spanned by memory mappings, in essence anything which might alter
> the output of /proc/$pid/[s]maps.
> 
> This is necessarily fuzzy, as there is not quite as good separation of
> concerns as we would ideally like in the kernel. However each of these
> files interacts with the VMA and memory mapping logic in such a way as to
> be inseparatable from it, and it is important that they are maintained in
> conjunction with it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>

Yeah having MEMORY MAPPING and VMA separate but with same people wasn't
necessary. MEMORY MAPPING is IMHO the correct superset and the newly added
files there make sense to me.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 23 ++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 68d825a4c69c..fb91389addd7 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15071,7 +15071,15 @@ L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
>  S:	Maintained
>  W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> +F:	mm/mlock.c
>  F:	mm/mmap.c
> +F:	mm/mprotect.c
> +F:	mm/mremap.c
> +F:	mm/mseal.c
> +F:	mm/vma.c
> +F:	mm/vma.h
> +F:	mm/vma_internal.h
> +F:	tools/testing/vma/
>  
>  MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
>  M:	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> @@ -25019,21 +25027,6 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/vsockmon.h
>  F:	net/vmw_vsock/
>  F:	tools/testing/vsock/
>  
> -VMA
> -M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> -M:	Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
> -M:	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> -R:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> -R:	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> -L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
> -S:	Maintained
> -W:	https://www.linux-mm.org
> -T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> -F:	mm/vma.c
> -F:	mm/vma.h
> -F:	mm/vma_internal.h
> -F:	tools/testing/vma/
> -
>  VMALLOC
>  M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>  R:	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>