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Subject: [PATCH v3 21/24] mm/kconfig: make BALLOON_COMPACTION depend on MIGRATION
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:01:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260119230133.3551867-22-david@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260119230133.3551867-1-david@kernel.org>

Migration support for balloon memory depends on MIGRATION not
COMPACTION. Compaction is simply another user of page migration.

The last dependency on compaction.c was effectively removed with
commit 3d388584d599 ("mm: convert "movable" flag in page->mapping to a
page flag"). Ever since, everything for handling movable_ops page
migration resides in core migration code.

So let's change the dependency and adjust the description +
help text.

We'll rename BALLOON_COMPACTION separately next.

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 17 +++++++----------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 24a3ff149a1b0..0d13c1b36e1c1 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -599,17 +599,14 @@ config MEMORY_BALLOON
 #
 # support for memory balloon compaction
 config BALLOON_COMPACTION
-	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
+	bool "Allow for balloon memory migration"
 	default y
-	depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
-	help
-	  Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
-	  significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
-	  used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
-	  with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
-	  by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
-	  pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
-	  scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
+	depends on MIGRATION && MEMORY_BALLOON
+	help
+	  Allow for migration of pages inflated in a memory balloon such that
+	  they can be allocated from memory areas only available for movable
+	  allocations (e.g., ZONE_MOVABLE, CMA) and such that they can be
+	  migrated for memory defragmentation purposes by memory compaction.
 
 #
 # support for memory compaction
-- 
2.52.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-19 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-19 23:01 [PATCH v3 00/24] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups 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)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 02/24] vmw_balloon: remove vmballoon_compaction_init() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 03/24] powerpc/pseries/cmm: remove cmm_balloon_compaction_init() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 04/24] mm/balloon_compaction: improve comments for WARN_ON_ONCE(!b_dev_info) David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 05/24] mm/balloon_compaction: centralize basic page migration handling David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 06/24] mm/balloon_compaction: centralize adjust_managed_page_count() handling David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 07/24] vmw_balloon: stop using the balloon_dev_info lock David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 08/24] mm/balloon_compaction: use a device-independent balloon (list) lock David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 09/24] mm/balloon_compaction: remove dependency on page lock David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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)
2026-01-19 23:01 ` [PATCH v3 13/24] mm/balloon_compaction: remove balloon_page_push/pop() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) [this message]
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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