mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility

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.

This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on
making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system
to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation.

[[email protected]: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups]
[[email protected]: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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