Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update MGLRU entry to reflect current status

[Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 4:47 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
> <vbabka@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > +Cc Suren as IIRC he mentioned some intent to look into this as well, in the
> > mmap_lock call.
>
> Not myself but I asked Kalesh (CC'ed here) to get involved in upstream
> reviews. Kalesh are you ready to be added as a Reviewer?

Hi Suren,

Thanks for looping me in. I plan to try my best to dedicate time MGLRU
reviewss. Let's see how that goes practically, and we can look at
updating the MAINTAINERS file later on if it makes sense.

Thanks,
Kalesh

>
> >
> > On 3/26/26 19:56, Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) wrote:
> > > We are moving to a far more proactive model of maintainership within mm and
> > > thus put a great deal of emphasis on sub-maintainers being active within
> > > the community both in terms of code contributions and review.
> > >
> > > The MGLRU has not had much activity since being added to the kernel and the
> > > current maintainers who kindly stepped up have unfortunately not been able
> > > to contribute a great deal to it for over a year, nor engage all that
> > > heavily in review.
> > >
> > > As a result, and within no negative connotations implied whatsoever, it
> > > seems appropriate to downgrade the current maintainers to reviewers.
> >
> > Seems fair to me.
> >
> > > At this time nobody is quite exercising the maintainer role in this area of
> > > the kernel, but there is encouraging activity from a number of people who
> > > are trusted elsewhere in the kernel, and who have contributed relevant work
> > > or review.
> > >
> > > Therefore add further reviewers, and at this stage - to reflect the reality
> > > on the ground - we will not have any sub-maintainers listed at all.
> > >
> > > Each of the files listed are shared with other sections in MAINTAINERS, so
> > > this doesn't reduce sub-maintainer coverage.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
> >
> > Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
> >
> > (I assume the newly added people will ack their additions)
> >
> > > ---
> > > (Apologies sent first version of this without MLs attached :)
> > >
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++--
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 76431aa5efbe..16874c32e288 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -16757,8 +16757,12 @@ F:   mm/migrate_device.c
> > >
> > >  MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MGLRU (MULTI-GEN LRU)
> > >  M:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > > -M:   Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
> > > -M:   Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
> > > +R:   Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
> > > +R:   Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
> > > +R:   Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> > > +R:   Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
> > > +R:   Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
> > > +R:   Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
> > >  R:   Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
> > >  L:   linux-mm@kvack.org
> > >  S:   Maintained
> > > --
> > > 2.53.0
> > >
> >