Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patchbomb)

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "About half of most of MM.  Going very early this time due to
  uncertainty over the coreautounifiednumasched things.  I'll send the
  other half of most of MM tomorrow.  The rest of MM awaits a slab merge
  from Pekka."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton: (71 commits)
  memory_hotplug: ensure every online node has NORMAL memory
  memory_hotplug: handle empty zone when online_movable/online_kernel
  mm, memory-hotplug: dynamic configure movable memory and portion memory
  drivers/base/node.c: cleanup node_state_attr[]
  bootmem: fix wrong call parameter for free_bootmem()
  avr32, kconfig: remove HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
  mm: cma: remove watermark hacks
  mm: cma: skip watermarks check for already isolated blocks in split_free_page()
  mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin
  mm, oom: change type of oom_score_adj to short
  mm: cleanup register_node()
  mm, mempolicy: remove duplicate code
  mm/vmscan.c: try_to_freeze() returns boolean
  mm: introduce putback_movable_pages()
  virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages
  mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages
  mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
  mm: redefine address_space.assoc_mapping
  mm: adjust address_space_operations.migratepage() return code
  arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c: s/COLOUR/COLOR/
  ...

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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index a3f8dddaaab..e6651c5de14 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -188,6 +188,21 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
 	default "4"
 
 #
+# support for memory balloon compaction
+config BALLOON_COMPACTION
+	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
+	def_bool y
+	depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_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.
+
+#
 # support for memory compaction
 config COMPACTION
 	bool "Allow for memory compaction"