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

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-15T11:25:21Z

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>
---
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
--
2.52.0

Thanks!

--
Cheers

David