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@ 2026-01-19 23:01 David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
  2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 01/24] vmw_balloon: adjust BALLOON_DEFLATE when deflating while migrating David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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From: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) @ 2026-01-19 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: linux-mm, linuxppc-dev, Broadcom internal kernel review list,
	linux-doc, virtualization, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat),
	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, Michael S. Tsirkin,
	Jason Wang, Xuan Zhuo, Eugenio Pérez, Zi Yan

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.

--

v2 -> v3:
* "mm/balloon_compaction: centralize basic page migration handling"
  -> Remove newline
  -> Talk about "page" instead of "old page"
  -> avoid the switch statement
* "mm/balloon_compaction: move internal helpers to balloon_compaction.c"
  -> No need to carry over the "inline"
* "fixup mm: rename CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION to CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION
  -> Remove some more "balloon page compaction" thingies
*  "MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT -
    BALLOON"
   -> CC the virt list and use the proper mail address
* "mm/balloon_compaction: improve comments for WARN_ON_ONCE(!b_dev_info)
   -> Added

v1 -> v2:
* Rebased to latest mm/mm-unstable without any conflicts
* Minor patch description/subject and comment fixups
* Retested

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jerrin Shaji George <jerrin.shaji-george@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) (24):
  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: improve comments for WARN_ON_ONCE(!b_dev_info)
  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                                   |  13 +-
 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}        | 200 ++++++++++++------
 mm/memory_hotplug.c                           |   4 +-
 mm/migrate.c                                  |   2 +-
 mm/vmscan.c                                   |   1 -
 mm/vmstat.c                                   |   8 +-
 19 files changed, 319 insertions(+), 417 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/balloon.h
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
 rename mm/{balloon_compaction.c => balloon.c} (58%)


base-commit: f8ed52ac0cfbddff992bb9600941bfe51e1e385a
-- 
2.52.0



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2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 10/24] mm/balloon_compaction: make balloon_mops static David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 11/24] mm/balloon_compaction: drop fs.h include from balloon_compaction.h David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 12/24] drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon: stop using balloon_page_push/pop() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 14/24] mm/balloon_compaction: fold balloon_mapping_gfp_mask() into balloon_page_alloc() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 15/24] mm/balloon_compaction: move internal helpers to balloon_compaction.c David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-20  6:43   ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 16/24] mm/balloon_compaction: assert that the balloon_pages_lock is held David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 17/24] mm/balloon_compaction: mark remaining functions for having proper kerneldoc David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 18/24] mm/balloon_compaction: remove "extern" from functions David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 19/24] mm/vmscan: drop inclusion of balloon_compaction.h David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 20/24] mm: rename balloon_compaction.(c|h) to balloon.(c|h) David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 21/24] mm/kconfig: make BALLOON_COMPACTION depend on MIGRATION David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 22/24] mm: rename CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION to CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 23/24] mm: rename CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON -> CONFIG_BALLOON David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 24/24] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON" David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:27 ` [PATCH v3 00/24] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups Andrew Morton

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