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Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jerrin Shaji George , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= , Zi Yan Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups Message-Id: <20260115104907.96d2aac4de42dce12d6064d9@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20260115092015.3928975-1-david@kernel.org> References: <20260115092015.3928975-1-david@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:19:50 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" wrote: > 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. Thanks, I'll add this. Again, I'll suppress the ensuing 528 emails. Sigh, I do worry that the ongoing email deluge is training people to ignore addition of things to mm.git. Maybe more emails like this one is the way to address this.