Changes in CREDITS

8ad5ac8f - MAINTAINERS: update SLAB ALLOCATOR maintainers

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:00:22 +0000

MAINTAINERS: update SLAB ALLOCATOR maintainersWith permission, reduce the number of maintainers. Create a CREDITS entryfor Joonsoo (Pekka already has one). Thanks for all the work!Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410090021.72296-3-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Harry Yoo Acked-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

5bbcb590 - MAINTAINERS: update Open vSwitch maintainers

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:15:20 +0000

MAINTAINERS: update Open vSwitch maintainersPravin has not been active for a while, missingmaints reports:Subsystem OPENVSWITCH Changes 138 / 253 (54%) (No activity) Top reviewers: [41]: aconole@redhat.com [31]: horms@kernel.org [23]: echaudro@redhat.com [8]: fw@strlen.de [6]: i.maximets@ovn.org INACTIVE MAINTAINER Pravin B Shelar Let's elevate Aaron, Eelco and Ilya to the status of maintainers.Acked-by: Aaron Conole Acked-by: Ilya Maximets Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron Acked-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250401001520.2080231-1-kuba@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

8de54488 - MAINTAINERS: configfs: add Andreas Hindborg as maintainer

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:45:30 +0000

MAINTAINERS: configfs: add Andreas Hindborg as maintainerRemove Joel Becker as maintainer of configfs and add Andreas Hindborg asmaintainer and Breno Leitao as reviewer. Also update the tree URL.Add an entry for Joel Becker to CREDITS.Acked-by: Breno Leitao Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250326-configfs-maintainer-v1-1-b175189fa27b@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Christian Brauner List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

f653b608 - MAINTAINERS: update bridge entry

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:06:31 +0000

MAINTAINERS: update bridge entryRoopa has decided to withdraw as a bridge maintainer and Ido has agreed tostep up and co-maintain the bridge with me. He has been very helpful inbridge patch reviews and has contributed a lot to the bridge over theyears. Add an entry for Roopa to CREDITS and also add bridge's headersto its MAINTAINERS entry.Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250314100631.40999-1-razor@blackwall.orgSigned-off-by: Paolo Abeni List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

6df8bae8 - mm: zbud: remove zbud

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:06:32 +0000

mm: zbud: remove zbudThe zbud compressed pages allocator is rarely used, most users usezsmalloc. zbud consumes much more memory (only stores 1 or 2 compressedpages per physical page). The only advantage of zbud is a marginalperformance improvement that by no means justify the memory overhead.Historically, zsmalloc had significantly worse latency than zbud andz3fold but offered better memory savings. This is no longer the case asshown by a simple recent analysis [1]. In a kernel build test on tmpfs ina limited cgroup, zbud 2-3% less time than zsmalloc, but at the cost ofusing ~32% more memory (1.5G vs 1.13G). The tradeoff does not make sensefor zbud in any practical scenario.The only alleged advantage of zbud is not having the dependency onCONFIG_MMU, but CONFIG_SWAP already depends on CONFIG_MMU anyway, and zbudis only used by zswap.Remove zbud after z3fold's removal, leaving zsmalloc as the one and onlyzpool allocator. Leave the removal of the zpool API (and its associatedconfig options) to a followup cleanup after no more allocators show up.Deprecating zbud for a few cycles before removing it was initiallyproposed [2], like z3fold was marked as deprecated for 2 cycles [3]. However, Johannes rightfully pointed out that the 2 cycles is too shortfor most downstream consumers, and z3fold was deprecated first only as acourtesy anyway.[1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkbRF6od-2x_L8-A1QL3=2Ww13sCj4S3i4bNndqF+3+_Vg@mail.gmail.com/[2]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z5gdnSX5Lv-nfjQL@google.com/[3]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240904233343.933462-1-yosryahmed@google.com/Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129180633.3501650-3-yosry.ahmed@linux.devSigned-off-by: Yosry Ahmed Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Nhat Pham Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: WANG Xuerui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

58ba73e5 - mm: z3fold: remove z3fold

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:06:31 +0000

mm: z3fold: remove z3foldPatch series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud", v2.After 2 cycles of deprecating z3fold, remove it as well as zbud (rationalein specific patches).This patch (of 2):Z3fold has been marked as deprecated for 2 cycles and no one complained,as expected. As there are no known users, remove the code now.Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129180633.3501650-1-yosry.ahmed@linux.devLink: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129180633.3501650-2-yosry.ahmed@linux.devSigned-off-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Nhat Pham Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: WANG Xuerui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

d9fefcea - net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driver

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:55:12 +0000

net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driverThis driver can no longer be built since support for IBM Cell Blades wasremoved, in particular PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE.Remove the driver and the documentation.Remove the MAINTAINERS entry, and add Ishizaki and Geoff to CREDITS.Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241218105523.416573-24-mpe@ellerman.id.au List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

05bf59fb - powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM Cell Blades

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:54:49 +0000

powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM Cell BladesIBM Cell Blades used the Cell processor and the "blade" server formfactor. They were sold as models QS20, QS21 & QS22 from roughly 2006 to2012 [1]. They were used in a few supercomputers (eg. Roadrunner) thathave since been dismantled, and were not that widely used otherwise.Until recently I still had a working QS22, which meant I was able tokeep the platform support working, but unfortunately that machine hasnow died.I'm not aware of any users. If there is a user that wants to keep theupstream support working, we can look at bringing some of the code backas appropriate.See previous discussion at [2].Remove the top-level config symbol PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE, and thenthe dependent symbols PPC_CELL_NATIVE, PPC_CELL_COMMON, CBE_RAS,PPC_IBM_CELL_RESETBUTTON, PPC_IBM_CELL_POWERBUTTON, CBE_THERM, andAXON_MSI. Then remove the associated C files and headers, and trimunused header content (some is shared with PS3).Note that PPC_CELL_COMMON sounds like it would build code shared withPS3, but it does not. It's a relic from when code was shared between theBlade support and QPACE support.Most of the primary authors already have CREDITS entries, with theexception of Christian, so add one for him.[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2011/06/28/ibm_kills_qs22_blade[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/60581044-df82-40ad-b94c-56468007a93e@app.fastmail.comAcked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241218105523.416573-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

6f61e5dc - MAINTAINERS: Remove Conor Culhane from Silvaco I3C

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:11:51 +0000

MAINTAINERS: Remove Conor Culhane from Silvaco I3CConor Culhane's email address (conor.culhane@silvaco.com) is no longeraccessible, and there has been no activity from him onhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-i3c/ in the past two years.To avoid email delivery failure messages when sending patches to the I3Cmailing list, remove him from the Maintainers section and move him to thecredits.Signed-off-by: Frank Li Acked-by: Miquel Raynal Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204161151.2179596-1-Frank.Li@nxp.comSigned-off-by: Alexandre Belloni List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

511121a4 - MAINTAINERS: Move Pavel to kernel.org address

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:42:01 +0000

MAINTAINERS: Move Pavel to kernel.org addressI need to filter my emails better, switch to pavel@kernel.org addressto help with that.Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

28097f7b - CREDITS: fix spelling mistake

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:47:10 +0000

CREDITS: fix spelling mistakeFix spelling error identified using codespell tool.Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111194709.51133-1-tanyaagarwal25699@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Tanya Agarwal Cc: Anup Sharma Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

35286a67 - MAINTAINERS: Update DRM GPU Scheduler section

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:18:50 +0000

MAINTAINERS: Update DRM GPU Scheduler sectionLuben has not been active and has not responded to mails since summer2024. Remove him from MAINTAINERS and add an entry in CREDITS.Philipp has a new email address and an ACK to commit work time to thescheduler. Thus, set the state to 'Supported'.Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: Danilo Krummrich Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20250113121851.31382-1-phasta@kernel.org List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

e049fb86 - MAINTAINERS: remove Andy Gospodarek from bonding

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:52:37 +0000

MAINTAINERS: remove Andy Gospodarek from bondingAndy does not participate much in bonding reviews, unfortunately.Move him to CREDITS.gitdm missingmaint says:Subsystem BONDING DRIVER Changes 149 / 336 (44%) Last activity: 2024-09-05 Jay Vosburgh : Tags 68db604e16d5 2024-09-05 00:00:00 8 Andy Gospodarek : Top reviewers: [65]: jay.vosburgh@canonical.com [23]: liuhangbin@gmail.com [16]: razor@blackwall.org INACTIVE MAINTAINER Andy Gospodarek Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250108155242.2575530-4-kuba@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

b5066686 - MAINTAINERS: update maintainers for Microchip LAN78xx

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:52:36 +0000

MAINTAINERS: update maintainers for Microchip LAN78xxWoojung Huh seems to have only replied to the list 35 timesin the last 5 years, and didn't provide any reviews in 3 years.The LAN78XX driver has seen quite a bit of activity lately.gitdm missingmaints says:Subsystem USB LAN78XX ETHERNET DRIVER Changes 35 / 91 (38%) (No activity) Top reviewers: [23]: andrew@lunn.ch [3]: horms@kernel.org [2]: mateusz.polchlopek@intel.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Woojung Huh Move Woojung to CREDITS and add new maintainers who are morelikely to review LAN78xx patches.Acked-by: Woojung Huh Acked-by: Rengarajan Sundararajan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250108155242.2575530-3-kuba@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

d5820096 - MAINTAINERS: mark Synopsys DW XPCS as Orphan

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:52:35 +0000

MAINTAINERS: mark Synopsys DW XPCS as OrphanThere's not much review support from Jose, there is a sharpdrop in his participation around 4 years ago.The DW XPCS IP is very popular and the driver requires activemaintenance.gitdm missingmaints says:Subsystem SYNOPSYS DESIGNWARE ETHERNET XPCS DRIVER Changes 33 / 94 (35%) (No activity) Top reviewers: [16]: andrew@lunn.ch [12]: vladimir.oltean@nxp.com [2]: f.fainelli@gmail.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Jose Abreu Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250108155242.2575530-2-kuba@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

495cc28f - MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:47:21 +0000

MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf BaechleRalf Baechle has been inactive for years now and the linux-mips.org sitehas gone down. No replacement contact information is available. Thomashas been kind enough to step up as a maintainer for EDAC-CAVIUM OCTEONand IOC3 ETHERNET DRIVER.Update MAINTAINERS, CREDITS, and .get_maintainer.ignore accordingly.Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

30026390 - MAINTAINERS: remove Zefan Li

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 03:02:52 +0000

MAINTAINERS: remove Zefan LiNot active for a long time, so remove myself from MAINTAINERS.Cc: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

be31ec5c - MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:33:29 +0000

MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entrySigned-off-by: Florian Fainelli Acked-by: Andrew Lunn Acked-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241031173332.3858162-1-f.fainelli@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

1164f23f - MAINTAINERS: Change FSL DDR EDAC maintainership

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:33:48 +0000

MAINTAINERS: Change FSL DDR EDAC maintainershipLast email from York Sun is from 2019, so move him to Credits. Frank Livolunteered to keep maintaining the driver, add him as a reviewer for now.Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241003193348.102234-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS

b1815690 - CREDITS: sort alphabetically by name

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:19:32 +0000

CREDITS: sort alphabetically by nameRe-sort few misplaced entries in the CREDITS file.Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241002111932.46012-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton List of files: /linux-6.15/CREDITS