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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:18:42 +0800
From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 13/29] mm/balloon_compaction: stop using
 __ClearPageMovable()

David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> writes:

> We can just look at the balloon device (stored in page->private), to see
> of the page is still part of the balloon.

s/of/if/

?

just a trivial issue if I'm not wrong.

> As isolated balloon pages cannot get released (they are taken off the
> balloon list while isolated), we don't have to worry about this case in
> the putback and migration callback. Add a WARN_ON_ONCE for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

[snip]

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Best Regards,
Huang, Ying