virtio balloon · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• M David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>

Paths

• F drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
• F include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on virtualization (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD56d [RFC PATCH] virtio_balloon: add VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_REPORTING_PM_SAFE feature bit
  2026-07-24 · Link Lin <hidden>
• STALE73d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 2/2] virtio_balloon: avoid shrinker execution during PM suspend
  2026-07-17 · Link Lin <hidden>
• STALE77d [RFC] virtio_balloon: fix Use-After-Free in page reporting during PM freeze
  2026-07-09 · Link Lin <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH v4] virtio_balloon: prime stats vq after virtio_device_ready()
  2026-07-07 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] virtio_balloon: prime stats vq after virtio_device_ready()
  2026-07-06 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE87d [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: prime stats vq after virtio_device_ready()
  2026-07-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] virtio_balloon: prime stats vq after virtio_device_ready()
  2026-07-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE87d IN LINUX-NEXT: 24 (23M) [PATCH v3] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-07-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE88d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable indirect descriptors
  2026-07-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE80d [PATCH v2 5/4] virtio_balloon: warn on failed buffer add in stats_handle_request()
  2026-06-24 · Denis V. Lunev <hidden>
• STALE80d [PATCH v2 4/4] virtio_balloon: warn on failed buffer add in tell_host()
  2026-06-24 · Denis V. Lunev <hidden>
• STALE80d [PATCH v2 3/4] virtio_balloon: quiesce balloon work before device shutdown
  2026-06-24 · Denis V. Lunev <hidden>
• STALE80d [PATCH v2 2/4] virtio_balloon: factor out virtballoon_quiesce()
  2026-06-24 · Denis V. Lunev <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 1/2] virtio_balloon: factor out virtballoon_quiesce()
  2026-06-22 · Denis V. Lunev <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 2/2] virtio_balloon: quiesce balloon work before device shutdown
  2026-06-22 · Denis V. Lunev <hidden>
• STALE109d [PATCH v2] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-06-10 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE108d [PATCH splitout] virtio_balloon: disable indirect descriptors
  2026-06-09 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE114d [PATCH splitout] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-06-09 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE101d [PATCH v10 37/37] virtio_balloon: implement VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_ON_INFLATE
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE101d [PATCH v10 35/37] virtio_balloon: disable reporting zeroed optimization for confidential guests
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE101d [PATCH v10 34/37] virtio_balloon: skip zeroing for host-zeroed reported pages
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE101d [PATCH v10 32/37] virtio_balloon: disable indirect descriptors
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE101d [PATCH v10 31/37] virtio_balloon: submit reported pages as individual buffers
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE101d [PATCH v10 04/37] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH v9 37/37] virtio_balloon: implement VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_ON_INFLATE
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH v9 32/37] virtio_balloon: disable reporting zeroed optimization for confidential guests
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH v9 31/37] virtio_balloon: skip zeroing for host-zeroed reported pages
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH v9 28/37] virtio_balloon: disable indirect descriptors
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH v9 27/37] virtio_balloon: submit reported pages as individual buffers
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH v9 04/37] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE169d [PATCH RFC 9/9] virtio_balloon: a hack to enable host-zeroed page optimization
  2026-04-12 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE163d [PATCH RFC v2 15/18] virtio_balloon: add host_zeroes_pages module parameter
  2026-04-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE163d [PATCH RFC v2 18/18] virtio_balloon: mark deflated pages as pre-zeroed
  2026-04-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE158d [PATCH RFC v3 13/19] virtio_balloon: a hack to enable host-zeroed page optimization
  2026-04-21 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE158d [PATCH RFC v3 19/19] virtio_balloon: mark deflated pages as zeroed
  2026-04-21 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE157d [PATCH RFC v4 18/22] virtio_balloon: a hack to enable host-zeroed page optimization
  2026-04-26 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE157d [PATCH RFC v4 22/22] virtio_balloon: mark deflated pages as zeroed
  2026-04-26 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE145d [PATCH v5 14/28] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-05-07 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE145d [PATCH v5 20/28] virtio_balloon: submit reported pages as individual buffers
  2026-05-07 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE145d [PATCH v5 25/28] virtio_balloon: implement VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_ON_INFLATE
  2026-05-07 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>