Re: [PATCH v11 3/8] highmem: introduce clear_user_highpages()

["David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 1/7/26 08:20, Ankur Arora wrote:
> Define clear_user_highpages() which uses the range clearing primitive,
> clear_user_pages(). We can safely use this when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is
> disabled and if the architecture does not have clear_user_highpage.
> 
> The first is needed to ensure that contiguous page ranges stay
> contiguous which precludes intermediate maps via HIGMEM.
> The second, because if the architecture has clear_user_highpage(),
> it likely needs flushing magic when clearing the page, magic that
> we aren't privy to.
> 
> For both of those cases, just fallback to a loop around
> clear_user_highpage().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/highmem.h | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
> index 019ab7d8c841..af03db851a1d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/highmem.h
> +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
> @@ -251,7 +251,14 @@ static inline void clear_user_pages(void *addr, unsigned long vaddr,
>   #endif
>   }
>   
> -/* when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set these will be plain clear/copy_page */
> +/**
> + * clear_user_highpage() - clear a page to be mapped to user space

Just a minor comment as I am skimming the patches: I recall kerneldoc 
does not require the "()" here. But I also recall that it doesn't hurt :)

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>

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Cheers

David