From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:49:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260115104907.96d2aac4de42dce12d6064d9@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260115092015.3928975-1-david@kernel.org>
On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:19:50 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org> 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.
Thanks, I'll add this. Again, I'll suppress the ensuing 528 emails.
Sigh, I do worry that the ongoing email deluge is training people to
ignore addition of things to mm.git. Maybe more emails like this one
is the way to address this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-15 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-15 9:19 David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 01/23] vmw_balloon: adjust BALLOON_DEFLATE when deflating while migrating David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:56 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 02/23] vmw_balloon: remove vmballoon_compaction_init() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 11:20 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 03/23] powerpc/pseries/cmm: remove cmm_balloon_compaction_init() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 11:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-19 22:44 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 04/23] mm/balloon_compaction: centralize basic page migration handling David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 12:57 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 22:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 22:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 05/23] mm/balloon_compaction: centralize adjust_managed_page_count() handling David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 14:06 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 06/23] vmw_balloon: stop using the balloon_dev_info lock David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 12:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 07/23] mm/balloon_compaction: use a device-independent balloon (list) lock David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 08/23] mm/balloon_compaction: remove dependency on page lock David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 09/23] mm/balloon_compaction: make balloon_mops static David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 10/23] mm/balloon_compaction: drop fs.h include from balloon_compaction.h David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 11/23] drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon: stop using balloon_page_push/pop() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 12/23] mm/balloon_compaction: remove balloon_page_push/pop() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:29 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 13/23] mm/balloon_compaction: fold balloon_mapping_gfp_mask() into balloon_page_alloc() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 14/23] mm/balloon_compaction: move internal helpers to balloon_compaction.c David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:32 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 15/23] mm/balloon_compaction: assert that the balloon_pages_lock is held David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:32 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 16/23] mm/balloon_compaction: mark remaining functions for having proper kerneldoc David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 17/23] mm/balloon_compaction: remove "extern" from functions David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:34 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 18/23] mm/vmscan: drop inclusion of balloon_compaction.h David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 13:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 19/23] mm: rename balloon_compaction.(c|h) to balloon.(c|h) David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 13:45 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 20/23] mm/kconfig: make BALLOON_COMPACTION depend on MIGRATION David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 13:47 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 21/23] mm: rename CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION to CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 13:52 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 22/23] mm: rename CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON -> CONFIG_BALLOON David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 13:55 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 16:33 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 16:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-01-15 16:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-01-15 16:56 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 16:57 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 9:20 ` [PATCH v2 23/23] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON" David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-01-15 11:21 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:38 ` Lance Yang
2026-01-15 11:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 9:39 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15 11:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 12:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-15 9:32 ` [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-01-15 11:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15 18:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2026-01-15 19:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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