From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; t=1793718635; b=VPxNeU3Btk/Obmo3KTklkeBNwcrXzlgZtBtijmXxjbqDHNmE8lmMRH68tfy3ZcizQQtb EXCOJ7ltYVw2X+/7W+5BU2puPTplLODOB2Zl4xnLfceFDE9buDIyUjeizSQSrfHD/C7fu zUcTmd32gxItB7Jr40T9SinlLyNLlUKXYOgrvwvrnRO4pKGD3SQyY4hL0aImhbTLMCF97 p4qysvarNEIx1qzjlVZkLxBG7E3lM1RIR/s+Rqs48kUMU9ExaNR9nv06D+tGcn+90qitQ uN8R1EP9M4ath1taJAdAKzAv1O+Yg7cV8jzXsIomSsIZkOYuhPaUuz9lreG0zweyedg== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1793718635; h=Received:DKIM-Signature:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id: In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; bh=y4ejFprHMn7fbA6AWJoEiEq8rfSRXpFulq4sNe2AGUA=; b=v0miR7iciAvQZSlzc5W88nEjGSF+nRZ0iWpT1+D3LjGBfBYnGgM4XHVE2ZKuQdUEPAyo rTFQwSiiN7xWBGEBDv81Mh0ZWRA2getVKDhBbw8eTxRcrrmmxDjO2IumNpgo0jvZnsr1V YPsKWoAGJXWfsThxqmwNGjt/hGSK21ImhX6nUe8Hk+ZGEFQ1allonqcTrvZ12Kh2d76+O UGmZ5mcPBkpssMfF4604FByJzfVRepByIw8SQfm6Vyzcv73zeFIpWbYu2zyY9Otlaaeit tXSOgHc5+7teORa9nzP5UzVxb1zQGUK3EYurbAzWwVHo5VbEzumBvM5nfJw5n+dXu2A== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=korg header.b=Qjph4BUN; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B147606A78A; Tue, 3 Nov 2026 15:10:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key, unprotected) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=korg header.b=Qjph4BUN Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 224FA1F00A02; Tue, 3 Nov 2026 15:10:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1793718634; bh=y4ejFprHMn7fbA6AWJoEiEq8rfSRXpFulq4sNe2AGUA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=Qjph4BUN/7Bx65go6uOjaS6ro8gpXeSXABxtg2sKX1STgEQbQocSdVe/GUvVSZBL6 /WV94KXfhUMncqUJ+s8QUo9vlBuudYt5mH9DSWfyjvwA6FpjLONymuSiKLTWWo7H1j UweUoz3VZpQlfrR5Z1r0qnEjCKrgoPx5ReOz+1Lg= Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 07:10:31 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Hugh Dickins Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , Alistair Popple , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Baolin Wang , Baoquan He , Barry Song , Brendan Jackman , Byungchul Park , Chengming Zhou , Chris Li , Christoph Lameter , Dave Chinner , David Rientjes , Dennis Zhou , Dev Jain , Gregory Price , Hao Li , Harry Yoo , Jann Horn , Johannes Weiner , John Hubbard , Joshua Hahn , Kairui Song , Kemeng Shi , Kiryl Shutsemau , Lance Yang , "Liam R. Howlett" , Lorenzo Stoakes , Matthew Brost , Miaohe Lin , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Muchun Song , Naoya Horiguchi , Nhat Pham , Nick Piggin , Nico Pache , Oscar Salvador , Pedro Falcato , Peter Xu , Peter Zijlstra , Qi Zheng , Rakie Kim , Rik van Riel , Roman Gushchin , Ryan Roberts , Shakeel Butt , Suren Baghdasaryan , Tejun Heo , Uladzislau Rezki , Usama Arif , Vlastimil Babka , Will Deacon , Xu Xin , Ying Huang , Youngjun Park , Zi Yan , Jason Gunthorpe , Manfred Spraul , Christian Brauner , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] MAINTAINERS: TMPFS (SHMEM FILESYSTEM) updates Message-Id: <20261103071031.803bcf7ef27349e5035625e3@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20261030-maintainers-v1-0-97278f8a5f54@kernel.org> <20261030-maintainers-v1-2-97278f8a5f54@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 3 Nov 2026 00:27:22 -0800 (PST) Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2026, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > > > I am not really the best shmem/tmpfs/memfd expert around, but it should > > be good enough to judge when something is ready to be picked up, to then > > pick it up. I'll have to heavily rely on Hugh and Baolin on judgment > > for the more involved and more controversial bits. > > > > Rename "TMPFS (SHMEM FILESYSTEM)" to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - SHARED MEMORY > > (SHMEM/TMPFS/MEMFD)" and move it accordingly. Add myself as a MAINTAINER > > so people know whom to CC. > > Thank you for taking this on, David. And thank you of course to the > unlisted Andrew Morton, who has been uncomplainingly filling in for > me year after year; and thank you to Baolin too. > > "SHARED MEMORY": should ipc/shm.c be added to our list of files below, > as mm/memfd.c is? (Though both can also go off to hugetlbfs instead.) > Or do you prefer to regard ipc/shm.c more as a client of mm/shmem.c, > rather as drivers/gpu/drm is? > > We don't often have to touch ipc/shm.c, and generally ipc/ is well cared > for by Manfred Spraul (but I couldn't see a block in MAINTAINERS for it). I actually have this queued in mm-nonmm-hotfixes-stable: From: Andrew Morton Subject: MAINTAINERS: add an IPC entry Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:09:52 -0700 Add an entry covering ipc/ and its IPC and POSIX message queue selftests, with Andrew Morton as maintainer and Manfred Spraul and Davidlohr Bueso as reviewers. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Manfred Spraul --- MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/MAINTAINERS~maintainers-add-ipc-maintainers +++ a/MAINTAINERS @@ -14070,6 +14070,16 @@ S: Maintained F: io_uring/bpf-ops.* F: io_uring/loop.* +IPC +M: Andrew Morton +R: Manfred Spraul +R: Davidlohr Bueso +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org +S: Maintained +F: ipc/ +F: tools/testing/selftests/ipc/ +F: tools/testing/selftests/mqueue/ + IPMI SUBSYSTEM M: Corey Minyard L: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net (moderated for non-subscribers) _