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authorDavid Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>2026-01-20 00:01:30 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-01-31 14:22:36 -0800
commitcd8e95d80bc29b3c72288bd31e845b11755ef6a5 (patch)
treef51577cd6121a24a9cddfb0a7a257b6aa09ec038 /Documentation/admin-guide
parent7cf3318a25877c0908e450919f7e1517908e24f1 (diff)
mm: rename CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION to CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION
While compaction depends on migration, the other direction is not the case. So let's make it clearer that this is all about migration of balloon pages. Adjust all comments/docs in the core to talk about "migration" instead of "compaction". While at it add some "/* CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION */". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260119230133.3551867-23-david@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@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: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> 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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
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@@ -603,11 +603,11 @@ ZONE_MOVABLE, especially when fine-tuning zone ratios:
memory for metadata and page tables in the direct map; having a lot of offline
memory blocks is not a typical case, though.
-- Memory ballooning without balloon compaction is incompatible with
- ZONE_MOVABLE. Only some implementations, such as virtio-balloon and
- pseries CMM, fully support balloon compaction.
+- Memory ballooning without support for balloon memory migration is incompatible
+ with ZONE_MOVABLE. Only some implementations, such as virtio-balloon and
+ pseries CMM, fully support balloon memory migration.
- Further, the CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION kernel configuration option might be
+ Further, the CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION kernel configuration option might be
disabled. In that case, balloon inflation will only perform unmovable
allocations and silently create a zone imbalance, usually triggered by
inflation requests from the hypervisor.