Re: [PATCH v2 23/23] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"

Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-15T12:01:56Z

On 1/15/26 12:25, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
for both

> ---
> 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