linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 20/23] mm/kconfig: make BALLOON

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Message-ID: <5e35a398-af4e-4c54-9285-4202da08f456@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:43:08 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 20/23] mm/kconfig: make BALLOON_COMPACTION depend on
 MIGRATION

On 21.10.25 19:13, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/21/25 8:00 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Migration support for balloon memory depends on MIGRATION not
>> COMPACTION. Compaction is simply another user of page migration.
>>
>> The last dependency on compaction.c was effectively removed with
>> commit 3d388584d599 ("mm: convert "movable" flag in page->mapping to a
>> page flag"). Ever since, everything for handling movable_ops page
>> migration resides in core migration code.
>>
>> So let's change the dependency and adjust the description +
>> help text.
>>
>> We'll rename BALLOON_COMPACTION separately next.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>   mm/Kconfig | 17 +++++++----------
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
>> index e47321051d765..3aff4d05a2d8c 100644
>> --- a/mm/Kconfig
>> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
>> @@ -599,17 +599,14 @@ config MEMORY_BALLOON
>>   #
>>   # support for memory balloon compaction
>>   config BALLOON_COMPACTION
>> -	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
>> +	bool "Allow for balloon memory migration"
>>   	default y
>> -	depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
>> -	help
>> -	  Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
>> -	  significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
>> -	  used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
>> -	  with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
>> -	  by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
>> -	  pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
>> -	  scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
>> +	depends on MIGRATION && MEMORY_BALLOON
>> +	help
>> +	  Allow for migration of pages inflated in a memory balloon such that
>> +	  they can be allocated from memory areas only available for movable
>> +	  allocations (e.g., ZONE_MOVABLE, CMA) and such that they can get
> 
> nit:
> s/get/be/

Thanks!

-- 
Cheers

David / dhildenb