From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10E3F1AAE17; Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790211823; cv=none; b=hB1KZ07Irsp1HzoKdtLi2+kmGKGXOh0LEXbd9dqeAt7ciBhygBvWXjUCFOG1nA4vOofyRbm0kkroNYvGy2Cd/GymsQQ9cdJI2W3Kw00/M7XSld6l8iptheskiDUcLvGgo51BAdRFkSWKoZUU1aVsNLSf+qHguRk2BmVb+9K5KE4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790211823; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Pnc2eG5KpssQK71R6RJZ0Z1lN5ASTvc+bbXex7x/P0o=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: Mime-Version:Content-Type; b=AyJIawEA9pGDnN3Acbb3RU9BkioQXMv4iaXmQoJ6u9Yidh37XOTsckLCUzGe3/2RVPYhS1UjOnamJMXgvbY4h9kKU65n97rJWLu+Hb79L2meZkQqHjZfi+ngcsF++Am0Mj+6q2QtCTCqpsP4dsAL26SK81hWfDV/q2EyJSDWbPo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=iZe3yRnT; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="iZe3yRnT" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB8B71F000FF; Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:03:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1790211821; bh=471CiwhaDOmAQt1rc5Q/KApp2ZszpOYdGXO9pnQREjw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=iZe3yRnTS/wlCZfYNfZwHHnK8yERscMeX2N0nv1rd1r2iwJy5a1M0ZiKER6JEuccO tCfbRsWcHVudipaGvqaV8/vZ+FUjphX1cI6MYhPgTMn2SW3qtiCgpOVH9xNc/TIVmi 24c8YcKi5MEsSge3aYREqfT0cuVviO/5uxE2A4xp0onOqnMLC+X2uvzn/HO3FAY7CA lUnH/q1u4uBkD4cH0jww1GghIVG9CX4P4fhSw2Gc9Cy4ib4lHPHnxYq+jayH9Xj1TN yniiMl2sr3FEB6fGnH4Sx4/gWxAehLsjyC1C859VZKCLgR7DHpozkkdr5DaPRWUKnN 89YBOowa8nu7A== Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:03:37 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Linux Trace Kernel , Masami Hiramatsu , Vincent Donnefort , Mathieu Desnoyers , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Add a MAINTAINERS category specific for the tracing ring-buffer Message-Id: <20260924100337.a138c4f2c4e87d6ddbfe0d07@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260910155058.1ac4c991@gandalf.local.home> References: <20260908094035.0b180833@gandalf.local.home> <20260910155058.1ac4c991@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:50:58 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Masami, > > Can I get an official Acked-by on this? > > Vincent, you can also give an Acked-by too. This looks good to me. Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Thanks! > > -- Steve > > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:40:35 -0400 > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > From: Steven Rostedt > > > > The ring buffer code in the tracing directory has always been decoupled > > from the tracing code. It had a clean abstracted API to allow it to be > > used by systems outside of tracing. The API even allowed the ring buffer > > code to be drastically changed without affecting the tracing sub-system. > > > > Recently, Vincent Donnefort has been contributing a lot of work to enhance > > the ring buffer. He implemented the user space mappings and recently > > created a version to allow pKVM hypervisors to use the code to trace > > the hypervisor and expose the events to the user. > > > > Create a separate category for maintaining the ring buffer code so that > > Vincent can become an official maintainer of it. His work has little to do > > with the tracing code itself. In the future, he may even be the main > > maintainer of the ring buffer. > > > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt > > --- > > MAINTAINERS | 16 ++++++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index 3a19da74d00c..71bd2f57055d 100644 > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > @@ -27778,6 +27778,22 @@ F: kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c > > F: kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c > > F: kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c > > > > +TRACING RING BUFFER > > +M: Steven Rostedt > > +M: Vincent Donnefort > > +M: Masami Hiramatsu > > +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > +L: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > +S: Maintained > > +Q: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-trace-kernel/list/ > > +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git > > +F: Documentation/trace/ring-buffer* > > +F: Documentation/trace/remotes.rst > > +F: include/linux/ring-buffer*.h > > +F: kernel/trace/*ring_buffer*.c > > +F: kernel/trace/remote*.c > > +F: tools/testing/selftests/ring-buffer/ > > + > > TRADITIONAL CHINESE DOCUMENTATION > > M: Chen-Yu Yeh > > M: Weijie Yuan > -- Masami Hiramatsu (Google)