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Subject[PATCH v2 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for MMU GATHER AND TLB INVALIDATION
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We recently had to debug a TLB invalidation problem on the munmap()
path, which was made more difficult than necessary because:

(a) The MMU gather code had changed without people realising
(b) Many people subtly misunderstood the operation of the MMU gather
code and its interactions with RCU and arch-specific TLB invalidation
(c) Untangling the intended behaviour involved educated guesswork and
plenty of discussion

Hopefully, we can avoid getting into this mess again by designating a
cross-arch group of people to look after this code. It is not intended
that they will have a separate tree, but they at least provide a point
of contact for anybody working in this area and can co-ordinate any
proposed future changes to the internal API.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 9ad052aeac39..e490a0a0605a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -9681,6 +9681,18 @@ S: Maintained
F: arch/arm/boot/dts/mmp*
F: arch/arm/mach-mmp/

+MMU GATHER AND TLB INVALIDATION
+M: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
+M: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+M: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
+M: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
+L: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
+L: linux-mm@kvack.org
+S: Maintained
+F: arch/*/include/asm/tlb.h
+F: include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+F: mm/mmu_gather.c
+
MN88472 MEDIA DRIVER
M: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
L: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
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