[PATCH v1 15/23] mm/balloon_compaction: assert that the balloon_pages_lock is held

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Tue Oct 21 23:59:20 AEDT 2025


Let's add some sanity checks for holding the balloon_pages_lock when
we're effectively inflating/deflating a page.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
---
 mm/balloon_compaction.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/balloon_compaction.c b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
index 717bc43732d09..f6e0582bd7ffe 100644
--- a/mm/balloon_compaction.c
+++ b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ static inline struct balloon_dev_info *balloon_page_device(struct page *page)
 static inline void balloon_page_insert(struct balloon_dev_info *balloon,
 				       struct page *page)
 {
+	lockdep_assert_held(&balloon_pages_lock);
 	__SetPageOffline(page);
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION)) {
 		SetPageMovableOps(page);
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ static inline void balloon_page_insert(struct balloon_dev_info *balloon,
  */
 static inline void balloon_page_finalize(struct page *page)
 {
+	lockdep_assert_held(&balloon_pages_lock);
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION))
 		set_page_private(page, 0);
 	/* PageOffline is sticky until the page is freed to the buddy. */
-- 
2.51.0



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