Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add memory advice section

[Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 01:00:41PM -0400, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> * Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> [250408 12:11]:
> > The madvise code straddles both VMA and page table manipulation. As a
> > result, separate it out into its own section and add maintainers/reviewers
> > as appropriate.
> >
> > We additionally include the mman-common.h file as this contains the shared
> > madvise flags and it is important we maintain this alongside madvise.c.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
>
> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>

Thanks!

>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index de97cd54ff24..325424a53acf 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -15552,6 +15552,19 @@ F:	mm/vma.h
> >  F:	mm/vma_internal.h
> >  F:	tools/testing/vma/
> >
> > +MEMORY MAPPING - MEMORY ADVICE
>
> Advice or advise?

I mean we give advice on memory right? ;)

I think Andrew's suggestion of madvise (memory advice) should cover
everything off. I adjust felt icky at the grammar of saying madvise here
but that idea fixes that.

>
> > +M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > +M:	Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
> > +M:	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> > +M:	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> > +R:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> > +R:	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> > +S:	Maintained
> > +W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
> > +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> > +F:	include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
> > +F:	mm/madvise.c
> > +
> >  MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
> >  M:	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> >  M:	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> > --
> > 2.49.0
> >