Re: [PATCH RFC 01/29] mm/balloon_compaction: we cannot have isolated pages in the balloon list

From: Zi Yan
Date: Wed Jun 18 2025 - 14:33:08 EST


On 18 Jun 2025, at 13:39, David Hildenbrand wrote:

> The core will set PG_isolated only after mops->isolate_page() was
> called. In case of the balloon, that is where we will remove it from
> the balloon list. So we cannot have isolated pages in the balloon list.
>
> Let's drop this unnecessary check.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/balloon_compaction.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best Regards,
Yan, Zi