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From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 23/23] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:25:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <284775bd-767d-45f8-b66b-96709dabcc5e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2ce1126-0059-481c-b54f-0b09518666d3@lucifer.local>

On 1/15/26 10:39, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:20:13AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
>> Nowadays, there is nothing virtio-balloon specific anymore about these
>> files, the basic infrastructure is used by multiple memory balloon
>> drivers.
>>
>> For now we'll route it through Andrew's tree, maybe in some future it
>> makes sense to route this through a separate tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
> 
> Assuming below fixed + Michael's concern addressed, LGTM so:
> 
> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> 
>> ---
>>   MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index de8f89ca1149f..b974f8c1c2225 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -16454,6 +16454,16 @@ T:	quilt git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new
>>   F:	mm/
>>   F:	tools/mm/
>>
>> +MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON
>> +M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> +M:	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> 
> david@kernel.org you mean? ;)

Maybe I just want all the patches to go to /dev/null soon? ;)

The following on top:


 From 3d344330b1ff6088582fe8e3bbff49d1557eba22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:23:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixup: MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to
  "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"

CC the virt list and use the proper mail address.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
---
  MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b974f8c1c2225..11720728d92f2 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16456,8 +16456,9 @@ F:	tools/mm/
  
  MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON
  M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-M:	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
+M:	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
  L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
+L:	virtualization@lists.linux.dev
  S:	Maintained
  W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
-- 
2.52.0


Thanks!

-- 
Cheers

David


  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-15 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-15  9:19 [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups 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) [this message]
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
2026-01-15 19:47   ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)

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