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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <2c4c2b2e-bf96-4c4a-a66c-93b66553030c@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:01:49 +0100
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
 Broadcom internal kernel review list
 <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>, "Liam R. Howlett"
 <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, Arnd Bergmann
 <arnd@...db.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Jerrin Shaji George <jerrin.shaji-george@...adcom.com>,
 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
 Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>, Eugenio Pérez
 <eperezma@...hat.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 23/23] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure
 to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"

On 1/15/26 12:25, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
> 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@...nel.org>
>> 
>> Assuming below fixed + Michael's concern addressed, LGTM so:
>> 
>> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.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@...ux-foundation.org>
>>> +M:	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>> 
>> david@...nel.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@...nel.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@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
for both

> ---
>   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@...ux-foundation.org>
> -M:	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> +M:	David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>
>   L:	linux-mm@...ck.org
> +L:	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev
>   S:	Maintained
>   W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
>   T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm