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 <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> > --- > 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 <[email protected]> > +M: Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]> > +M: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> > +L: [email protected] > +L: [email protected] > +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 <[email protected]> > M: Weijie Yuan <[email protected]>
