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[80.230.35.22]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-47ee97b2bebsm19745355e9.18.2026.01.15.01.33.00 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:33:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:32:58 -0500 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Broadcom internal kernel review list , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, Andrew Morton , Oscar Salvador , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jerrin Shaji George , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= , Zi Yan Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups Message-ID: <20260115043240-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20260115092015.3928975-1-david@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20260115092015.3928975-1-david@kernel.org> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: s42VSY0gRj_sd7IseY0hK1wj4Zqnvjek5NC26S3SmnY_1768469583 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam07 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: A8804A000F X-Stat-Signature: rk9p3wa4cmzibijufqun64y8exz5qscw X-HE-Tag: 1768469588-302394 X-HE-Meta: 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 MzbE2hJE 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 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:19:50AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote: > I started with wanting to remove the dependency of the balloon > infrastructure on the page lock, but ended up performing various other > cleanups, some of which I had on my todo list for years. > > This series heavily cleans up and simplifies our balloon infrastructure, > including our balloon page migration functionality. > > With this series, we no longer make use of the page lock for PageOffline > pages as part of the balloon infrastructure (preparing for memdescs > where PageOffline pages won't have any such lock), and simplifies > migration handling such that refcounting can more easily be adjusted > later (long-term focus is for PageOffline pages to not have a refcount > either). > > Plenty of related cleanups. > > Heavily compile-tested and heavily runtime-tested with virtio-balloon. > PPC CMM and the VMware balloon are untested and I'd appreciate a helping > hand from people that have suitable environments. > > Not CCing maintainers for the vmscan.c and migrate.c change as they > are rather trivial and I don't want to patchbomb them. besides MAINTAINERS thing: Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > -- > > This is based on mm/mm-unstable. > > v1 -> v2: > * Rebased to latest mm/mm-unstable without any conflicts > * Minor patch description/subject and comment fixups > * Retested > > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: Oscar Salvador > Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes > Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" > Cc: Vlastimil Babka > Cc: Mike Rapoport > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan > Cc: Michal Hocko > Cc: Jonathan Corbet > Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan > Cc: Michael Ellerman > Cc: Nicholas Piggin > Cc: Christophe Leroy > Cc: Arnd Bergmann > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Cc: Jerrin Shaji George > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" > Cc: Jason Wang > Cc: Xuan Zhuo > Cc: "Eugenio Pérez" > Cc: Zi Yan > > David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) (23): > vmw_balloon: adjust BALLOON_DEFLATE when deflating while migrating > vmw_balloon: remove vmballoon_compaction_init() > powerpc/pseries/cmm: remove cmm_balloon_compaction_init() > mm/balloon_compaction: centralize basic page migration handling > mm/balloon_compaction: centralize adjust_managed_page_count() handling > vmw_balloon: stop using the balloon_dev_info lock > mm/balloon_compaction: use a device-independent balloon (list) lock > mm/balloon_compaction: remove dependency on page lock > mm/balloon_compaction: make balloon_mops static > mm/balloon_compaction: drop fs.h include from balloon_compaction.h > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon: stop using balloon_page_push/pop() > mm/balloon_compaction: remove balloon_page_push/pop() > mm/balloon_compaction: fold balloon_mapping_gfp_mask() into > balloon_page_alloc() > mm/balloon_compaction: move internal helpers to balloon_compaction.c > mm/balloon_compaction: assert that the balloon_pages_lock is held > mm/balloon_compaction: mark remaining functions for having proper > kerneldoc > mm/balloon_compaction: remove "extern" from functions > mm/vmscan: drop inclusion of balloon_compaction.h > mm: rename balloon_compaction.(c|h) to balloon.(c|h) > mm/kconfig: make BALLOON_COMPACTION depend on MIGRATION > mm: rename CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION to CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION > mm: rename CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON -> CONFIG_BALLOON > MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT > - BALLOON" > > .../admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 8 +- > Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst | 2 +- > MAINTAINERS | 12 +- > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c | 53 +---- > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 105 +++------- > drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 64 ++---- > include/linux/balloon.h | 77 +++++++ > include/linux/balloon_compaction.h | 160 --------------- > include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 8 +- > mm/Kconfig | 23 +-- > mm/Makefile | 2 +- > mm/{balloon_compaction.c => balloon.c} | 194 +++++++++++++----- > mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 +- > mm/migrate.c | 2 +- > mm/vmscan.c | 1 - > mm/vmstat.c | 8 +- > 19 files changed, 314 insertions(+), 415 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 include/linux/balloon.h > delete mode 100644 include/linux/balloon_compaction.h > rename mm/{balloon_compaction.c => balloon.c} (59%) > > > base-commit: f8ed52ac0cfbddff992bb9600941bfe51e1e385a > -- > 2.52.0