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vmw_balloon: adjust BALLOON_DEFLATE when deflating while migrating
authorDavid Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:01:09 +0000 (00:01 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:22:30 +0000 (14:22 -0800)
commit6e31add91a10e3804f020ec4e87cb9c3b2b6c3ec
treec060c8f8906c1e6953a8cfe0e1d95b8c921ec5c0
parent9c284c91b08e9a669e9e9657814be9ff49310fa2
vmw_balloon: adjust BALLOON_DEFLATE when deflating while migrating

Patch series "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups", v3.

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.

With this series, we no longer make use of the page lock for PageOffline
pages as part of the balloon infrastructure (preparing for memdescs where
PageOffline pages won't have any such lock), and simplifies migration
handling such that refcounting can more easily be adjusted later
(long-term focus is for PageOffline pages to not have a refcount either).

Plenty of related cleanups.

This patch (of 24):

When we're effectively deflating the balloon while migrating a page
because inflating the new page failed, we're not adjusting
BALLOON_DEFLATE.

Let's do that.  This is a preparation for factoring out this handling to
the core code, making it work in a similar way first.

As this (deflating while migrating because of inflation error) is a corner
case that I don't really expect to happen in practice and the stats are
not that crucial, this likely doesn't classify as a fix.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260119230133.3551867-1-david@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260119230133.3551867-2-david@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jerrin Shaji George <jerrin.shaji-george@broadcom.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c