From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
"Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Convert x86/mm/pat to generic page table apis
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 14:43:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaYSmajuukDL869D@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c85f864e-7784-4ba4-9fae-e957b6305d92@intel.com>
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.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-19 2:03 Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-19 2:03 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pte code to use " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-19 2:03 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pmd " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-19 2:03 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert populate_pgd() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-19 2:03 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert split_large_page() to use ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-20 10:25 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] Convert x86/mm/pat to generic page table apis Mike Rapoport
2026-02-27 20:07 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-27 22:24 ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-28 0:44 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-03-02 17:33 ` Dave Hansen
2026-03-02 20:27 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-03-02 20:55 ` Dave Hansen
2026-03-02 22:43 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle) [this message]
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