Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Add a MAINTAINERS category specific for the tracing ring-buffer

[Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 03:50:58PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Masami,
> 
> Can I get an official Acked-by on this?
> 
> Vincent, you can also give an Acked-by too.
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:40:35 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > 
> > 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 <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > ---
> >  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 <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > +M:	Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
> > +M:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> > +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 <chenyou910331@gmail.com>
> >  M:	Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
> 

Acked-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

-- 
Vincent