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diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index ce7e667..0b5865c6 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -7,9 +7,27 @@
typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **);
+/*
+ * Return values from addresss_space_operations.migratepage():
+ * - negative errno on page migration failure;
+ * - zero on page migration success;
+ *
+ * The balloon page migration introduces this special case where a 'distinct'
+ * return code is used to flag a successful page migration to unmap_and_move().
+ * This approach is necessary because page migration can race against balloon
+ * deflation procedure, and for such case we could introduce a nasty page leak
+ * if a successfully migrated balloon page gets released concurrently with
+ * migration's unmap_and_move() wrap-up steps.
+ */
+#define MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS 0
+#define MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS 1 /* special ret code for balloon page
+ * sucessful migration case.
+ */
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
extern void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l);
+extern void putback_movable_pages(struct list_head *l);
extern int migrate_page(struct address_space *,
struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);
extern int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
@@ -33,6 +51,7 @@ extern int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
#else
static inline void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l) {}
+static inline void putback_movable_pages(struct list_head *l) {}
static inline int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
unsigned long private, bool offlining,
enum migrate_mode mode) { return -ENOSYS; }
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