From 8acb31975a55e5cf3efc36750dad5d0788ff8bb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:40:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Add a MAINTAINERS category specific for the tracing ring-buffer 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. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260908094035.0b180833@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Vincent Donnefort Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- MAINTAINERS | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index f53047aa8d3c..c29e2a4f1f69 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -27794,6 +27794,22 @@ 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