linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 24/24] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT

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Message-ID: <20260119230133.3551867-25-david@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:01:32 +0100
From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [PATCH v3 24/24] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"

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.

Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@...nel.org>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index de8f89ca1149f..11720728d92f2 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16454,6 +16454,17 @@ 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@...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
+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 +27547,7 @@ 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>
-- 
2.52.0