On Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:06:37 +0100 Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 09:40:35AM -0400, Steven Rostedt 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 > > as it relates to simple_ring_buffer.c do you want to add here > undefsyms_base.c? Sure. I can send a v2. -- Steve > > > +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]> > > -- > > 2.53.0 > > >
