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mm/kconfig: make BALLOON_COMPACTION depend on MIGRATION

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Migration support for balloon memory depends on MIGRATION not COMPACTION. 
Compaction is simply another user of page migration.

The last dependency on compaction.c was effectively removed with commit
3d388584d5 ("mm: convert "movable" flag in page->mapping to a page
flag").  Ever since, everything for handling movable_ops page migration
resides in core migration code.

So let's change the dependency and adjust the description + help text.

We'll rename BALLOON_COMPACTION separately next.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260119230133.3551867-22-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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David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-20 00:01:29 +01:00
committed by Andrew Morton
parent 25b48b4cdf
commit 7cf3318a25
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@@ -599,17 +599,14 @@ config MEMORY_BALLOON
#
# support for memory balloon compaction
config BALLOON_COMPACTION
bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
bool "Allow for balloon memory migration"
default y
depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
depends on MIGRATION && MEMORY_BALLOON
help
Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
Allow for migration of pages inflated in a memory balloon such that
they can be allocated from memory areas only available for movable
allocations (e.g., ZONE_MOVABLE, CMA) and such that they can be
migrated for memory defragmentation purposes by memory compaction.
#
# support for memory compaction