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[104.155.91.135]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-486eb35bed0sm781202f8f.32.2026.09.10.13.20.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:20:30 +0100 From: Vincent Donnefort To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Linux Trace Kernel , Masami Hiramatsu , Mathieu Desnoyers , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Add a MAINTAINERS category specific for the tracing ring-buffer Message-ID: References: <20260908094035.0b180833@gandalf.local.home> <20260910155058.1ac4c991@gandalf.local.home> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260910155058.1ac4c991@gandalf.local.home> 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 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 > Acked-by: Vincent Donnefort -- Vincent