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Message-ID: <20260115093827.12557-1-lance.yang@linux.dev>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:38:27 +0800
From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>
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	Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 23/23] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"


On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:20:13 +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>
> ---
>  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>

Should it be david@...nel.org instead?

> +L:	linux-mm@...ck.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> +F:	include/linux/balloon.h
> +F:	mm/balloon.c
> +
>  MEMORY MANAGEMENT - CORE
>  M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>  M:	David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>
> @@ -27536,9 +27546,7 @@ M:	David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>
>  L:	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> -F:	include/linux/balloon.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> -F:	mm/balloon.c
>  
>  VIRTIO BLOCK AND SCSI DRIVERS
>  M:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>