[PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15T09:20:31Z

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.

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This is based on mm/mm-unstable.

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) (23):
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: 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 | 12 +-
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} | 194 +++++++++++++-----
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 +-
mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
mm/vmscan.c | 1 -
mm/vmstat.c | 8 +-
19 files changed, 314 insertions(+), 415 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/balloon.h
delete mode 100644 include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
rename mm/{balloon_compaction.c => balloon.c} (59%)

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