+ meminfo-add-a-per-node-counter-for-balloon-drivers-fix.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ meminfo-add-a-per-node-counter-for-balloon-drivers-fix.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: Documentation: document Balloon Meminfo entry
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     meminfo-add-a-per-node-counter-for-balloon-drivers-fix.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/meminfo-add-a-per-node-counter-for-balloon-drivers-fix.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Subject: Documentation: document Balloon Meminfo entry
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:07:18 -0600

Add a Balloon entry to the Meminfo documention.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst~meminfo-add-a-per-node-counter-for-balloon-drivers-fix
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -1081,6 +1081,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of
     FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
     CmaTotal:              0 kB
     CmaFree:               0 kB
+    Balloon:               0 kB
     HugePages_Total:       0
     HugePages_Free:        0
     HugePages_Rsvd:        0
@@ -1255,6 +1256,8 @@ CmaTotal
               Memory reserved for the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA)
 CmaFree
               Free remaining memory in the CMA reserves
+Balloon
+              Memory returned to Host by VM Balloon Drivers
 HugePages_Total, HugePages_Free, HugePages_Rsvd, HugePages_Surp, Hugepagesize, Hugetlb
               See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
 DirectMap4k, DirectMap2M, DirectMap1G
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from npache@redhat.com are

meminfo-add-a-per-node-counter-for-balloon-drivers.patch
meminfo-add-a-per-node-counter-for-balloon-drivers-fix.patch
balloon_compaction-update-the-nr_balloon_pages-state.patch
hv_balloon-update-the-nr_balloon_pages-state.patch
xen-balloon-update-the-nr_balloon_pages-state.patch
documentation-add-unaccepted-meminfo-entry.patch