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=1793622842; b=ju18jJqnjHTCEnyB6JLdkp58YJu29QM0ba9V77wpJJDGtgKQ8zWwpg0hnsQg1/v9YPdw Q9YcsG7AehDQlZThhtpsBHTyBth30OUVBJaMJ833GA3uFLfn2ZdGXO6OjXkERoR7amZ9l VS6GA8y4uYaBSJ1AxycA3d+rX9GfDwR5nb02NzxqnZpcYJnx/voPo5PBuhLmcJ9Ga8ejG ZYgg5j25scpBCbPYIkePTWuxoUYmWEKOmNsz1pcHjuzTrVftYcstc40IiXIFwk4KmASaf tfufXhcC4lRED4a3FPPum9jQZBZ1+qgPN78/XZBT8HDwfjT46jAkP2dBS+QPB/gAo4w== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1793622842; h=Received:DKIM-Signature:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID: References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; bh=ERFb/4pZagHFCs7MRUpaYMoBff9MSs/0QNXJcVIpqaY=; b=RsXwkztNHLeLfQ4FFeHlRNNvO2ECvUZ8j21PZ6TOvkD7UDBQekdSEHJc96ojp3ZCeHke e5Y79doHXQj9Mcpvgz2hf0TXHNLIj72y4/hscdKL1KZs1vzcbHGHC8g28Fq2upuD+9gk5 OpjiAlfxZjhVt92t3yDvwojnLZjri8wzCH3n0XBi+8I9fPRxvTWnNsTiVr2SRtXqqrjq9 2LdN3ert2+E4BazPb0MxorJwlz+4aFgtfEP5aCgr9dzWOwvh07DzPgf62EpjyBMBDauKo qzqZqeoAam6Q0lILw/8Vki/vGORcmmwfzqk2MMCLe6aLQ1zzS2Aj7CYEVijZeegDCUg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=QdQKeJ5B; 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 AE6D4606A326 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2026 12:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key, unprotected) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=QdQKeJ5B Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8EB211F00A18; Mon, 2 Nov 2026 12:33:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1793622841; bh=ERFb/4pZagHFCs7MRUpaYMoBff9MSs/0QNXJcVIpqaY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=QdQKeJ5BsIoDlme6gNWtDqK6f3GwZCgeYN4gIySuQv+cPn7TsIVM5wO7gl+c9Tqo/ fU6buhP8+018nyBI7CmJjMfFZXWX5wKctuoNCDMhxxirKAgJWySavZW73xnQBMvws8 +RDF4uEuX5kTlz8k+zWcxK1UJQ3jgIi6nZlBz+GbEZ/DhdgTzsm53pZL3+lw0E8J3l HgODW4TTM/U0rQzrzD066C2DqOVsIqEdYQAV1+/WnY25jOsjEP4Cru2iEtYb7CWZE7 0VumMjVk7tcHNAOTch/ScORa7POyfsl35S4dFeRrETxAttBeOGDCuIDIGE4Feig0iN 2UWCeQKC4VL0w== Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 12:33:47 +0000 From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 , Hugh Dickins , Jann Horn , Johannes Weiner , John Hubbard , Joshua Hahn , Kairui Song , Kemeng Shi , Kiryl Shutsemau , Lance Yang , "Liam R. Howlett" , 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 , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] MAINTAINERS: MM updates Message-ID: References: <20261030-maintainers-v1-0-97278f8a5f54@kernel.org> <1c46e678-1da8-473d-960e-5aa22d4d7e73@kernel.org> <20261101123025.4d8133d5321820f2202c8f1a@linux-foundation.org> <1b4d0299-4232-43eb-9229-7d2a2a7ce2fc@kernel.org> <4adcc07a-2df9-4d5b-8b0f-6734e336182e@kernel.org> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4adcc07a-2df9-4d5b-8b0f-6734e336182e@kernel.org> On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 01:32:10PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > On 11/2/26 12:17, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 07:47:46AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > >> On 11/1/26 21:30, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> After that I need to have it whack away at selftests, shudder. > >> > >> I am not convinced yet that we want that for all tests, which is why I left it > >> out. There is too much churn that's not really relevant for a component > >> maintainer POV. > >> > >> I was rather thinking that maybe we'd want a MM selftest component (likely for > >> the later MISC maintainer) that picks up the usual selftest churn. Component > >> maintainers really only have to be CCed on functional things. > > > > Hmm, but some of these tests are establishing important invariants. I wouldn't > > want somebody fundamentally changing what the guard region tests do for > > instance. > > > > On the one hand the churn (especially now) is annoying, on the other hand I can > > just ignore mail I don't care about. > > Well, as a listed maintainer you'd be expected to pick up these things. > > So I'd much rather have a dedicated selftest maintainer that takes care of these > things. > > OFC we can still add these tests cases to the relevant sections; we just have to > figure out who will pick up most simple changes. Yup, files can live in >1 sections at once, which should solve it from both sides. -- Cheers, Lorenzo