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

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Message-ID: <acf9d35a-f8bc-44a6-9092-3a8c719c53c2@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:21:46 +0100
From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 23/23] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure
 to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"

On 1/15/26 10:32, Michael S. Tsirkin 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>
>> ---
>>   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>
>> +L:	linux-mm@...ck.org
> 
> I'd still like virtualization@...ts.linux.dev included, too.

Makes sense.

-- 
Cheers

David