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

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Thu Jan 15 20:32:29 AEDT 2026


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 at kernel.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 at linux-foundation.org>
> +M:	David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
> +L:	linux-mm at kvack.org

I'd still like virtualization at lists.linux.dev included, too.

> +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 at linux-foundation.org>
>  M:	David Hildenbrand <david at kernel.org>
> @@ -27536,9 +27546,7 @@ M:	David Hildenbrand <david at kernel.org>
>  L:	virtualization at lists.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 at redhat.com>
> -- 
> 2.52.0



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