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

Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-15T11:24:00Z

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? ;)

> +L: linux-mm@kvack.org
> +S: Maintained
> +W: http://www.linux-mm.org
> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> +F: include/linux/balloon.h
> +F: mm/balloon.c
> +
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - CORE
> M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
> @@ -27536,9 +27546,7 @@ M: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
> L: virtualization@lists.linux.dev
> S: Maintained
> F: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> -F: include/linux/balloon.h
> F: include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> -F: mm/balloon.c
>
> VIRTIO BLOCK AND SCSI DRIVERS
> M: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> --
> 2.52.0
>