[PATCH v2 13/23] mm/balloon_compaction: fold balloon_mapping_gfp_mask() into balloon_page_alloc()

Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com
Thu Jan 15 23:30:36 AEDT 2026


On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:20:03AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
> Let's just remove balloon_mapping_gfp_mask().

Yeah... this was silly. :)

>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/balloon_compaction.h |  7 -------
>  mm/balloon_compaction.c            | 12 ++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h b/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
> index e5451cf1f6589..d1d4739398978 100644
> --- a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
> +++ b/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
> @@ -106,13 +106,6 @@ static inline void balloon_page_insert(struct balloon_dev_info *balloon,
>  	list_add(&page->lru, &balloon->pages);
>  }
>
> -static inline gfp_t balloon_mapping_gfp_mask(void)
> -{
> -	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION))
> -		return GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE;
> -	return GFP_HIGHUSER;
> -}
> -
>  /*
>   * balloon_page_finalize - prepare a balloon page that was removed from the
>   *			   balloon list for release to the page allocator
> diff --git a/mm/balloon_compaction.c b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
> index 90b2d61a593b7..709c57c00b481 100644
> --- a/mm/balloon_compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
> @@ -112,10 +112,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balloon_page_list_dequeue);
>   */
>  struct page *balloon_page_alloc(void)
>  {
> -	struct page *page = alloc_page(balloon_mapping_gfp_mask() |
> -				       __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY |
> -				       __GFP_NOWARN);
> -	return page;
> +	gfp_t gfp_flags = __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
> +
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION))
> +		gfp_flags |= GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE;
> +	else
> +		gfp_flags |= GFP_HIGHUSER;
> +
> +	return alloc_page(gfp_flags);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balloon_page_alloc);
>
> --
> 2.52.0
>


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