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

[Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>]

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?

>
> 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
> >
>