diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 42da35003052..1dd9cc2a12e0 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -8159,6 +8159,7 @@ M:	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
 M:	Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
 M:	Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
 M:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+R:	Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Supported
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git