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    MAINTAINERS: Add entry for MMU GATHER AND TLB INVALIDATION · 7526aa54
    Will Deacon authored
    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: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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