Re: [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: move memory tiering under MEMORY MANAGEMENT - NUMA PLACEMENT

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 06:34:25PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> NUMA PLACEMENT is a better place for memory tiering.

So you are finding a better placement for the placement bit of mm? :P

>
> My best guess is that existing MISC reviewers are not that interested in
> memory tiering, so don't carry any over.

I think misc by its very definition is a place to stash stuff that doesn't
belong elsewhere so seems rasonable :P

>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

LGTM so:

Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 77232db57b53d..344875eefd175 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17261,7 +17261,6 @@ W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cma
> -F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-memory-tiers
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa
>  F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
>  F:	Documentation/mm/
> @@ -17269,7 +17268,6 @@ F:	drivers/char/mem.c
>  F:	include/linux/cma.h
>  F:	include/linux/dmapool.h
>  F:	include/linux/ioremap.h
> -F:	include/linux/memory-tiers.h
>  F:	include/linux/page_idle.h
>  F:	mm/backing-dev.c
>  F:	mm/cma.c
> @@ -17281,7 +17279,6 @@ F:	mm/early_ioremap.c
>  F:	mm/fadvise.c
>  F:	mm/ioremap.c
>  F:	mm/mapping_dirty_helpers.c
> -F:	mm/memory-tiers.c
>  F:	mm/page_idle.c
>  F:	mm/pgalloc-track.h
>  F:	mm/process_vm_access.c
> @@ -17310,10 +17307,13 @@ L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
>  S:	Maintained
>  W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> +F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-memory-tiers
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-mempolicy
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-mempolicy-weighted-interleave
> +F:	include/linux/memory-tiers.h
>  F:	include/linux/mempolicy.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
> +F:	mm/memory-tiers.c
>  F:	mm/mempolicy.c
>
>  MEMORY MANAGEMENT - OOM KILLER
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>

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Cheers, Lorenzo