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[104.155.91.135]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-488682668dcsm5442336f8f.1.2026.09.23.01.06.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:06:37 +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> 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: <20260908094035.0b180833@gandalf.local.home> On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 09:40:35AM -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 as it relates to simple_ring_buffer.c do you want to add here undefsyms_base.c? > +F: kernel/trace/remote*.c > +F: tools/testing/selftests/ring-buffer/ > + > TRADITIONAL CHINESE DOCUMENTATION > M: Chen-Yu Yeh > M: Weijie Yuan > -- > 2.53.0 > -- Vincent