linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups

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Message-Id: <20260115104907.96d2aac4de42dce12d6064d9@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:49:07 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:19:50 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org> 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.