From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bp@alien8.de,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
mjguzik@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, willy@infradead.org, raghavendra.kt@amd.com,
chleroy@kernel.org, ioworker0@gmail.com,
boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/8] treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:11:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6559e53d-e940-4989-8bd2-de9a6cf9f62e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251215204922.475324-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
On 12/15/25 21:49, Ankur Arora wrote:
> From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>
> Let's drop all variants that effectively map to clear_page() and
> provide it in a generic variant instead.
>
> We'll use the macro clear_user_page to indicate whether an architecture
> provides it's own variant. Maybe at some point these should be CONFIG_
> options.
Can we drop the second sentence?
>
> Also, clear_user_page() is only called from the generic variant of
> clear_user_highpage(), so define it only if the architecture does
> not provide a clear_user_highpage(). And, for simplicity define it
> in linux/highmem.h.
>
> Note that for parisc, clear_page() and clear_user_page() map to
> clear_page_asm(), so we can just get rid of the custom clear_user_page()
> implementation. There is a clear_user_page_asm() function on parisc,
> that seems to be unused. Not sure what's up with that.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
You should likely now add
Co-developed-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
above your SB :)
> Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Skimmed over it and nothing jumped at me.
--
Cheers
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-18 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-15 20:49 [PATCH v10 0/8] mm: folio_zero_user: clear contiguous pages Ankur Arora
2025-12-15 20:49 ` [PATCH v10 1/8] treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant Ankur Arora
2025-12-18 7:11 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) [this message]
2025-12-18 19:31 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-15 20:49 ` [PATCH v10 2/8] highmem: introduce clear_user_highpages() Ankur Arora
2025-12-15 20:49 ` [PATCH v10 3/8] mm: introduce clear_pages() and clear_user_pages() Ankur Arora
2025-12-15 20:49 ` [PATCH v10 4/8] highmem: do range clearing in clear_user_highpages() Ankur Arora
2025-12-18 7:15 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-18 20:01 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-15 20:49 ` [PATCH v10 5/8] x86/mm: Simplify clear_page_* Ankur Arora
2025-12-15 20:49 ` [PATCH v10 6/8] x86/clear_page: Introduce clear_pages() Ankur Arora
2025-12-18 7:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-15 20:49 ` [PATCH v10 7/8] mm, folio_zero_user: support clearing page ranges Ankur Arora
2025-12-16 2:44 ` Andrew Morton
2025-12-16 6:49 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-16 15:12 ` Andrew Morton
2025-12-17 8:48 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-17 18:54 ` Andrew Morton
2025-12-17 19:51 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-17 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2025-12-18 0:51 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-18 7:36 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-18 20:16 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-15 20:49 ` [PATCH v10 8/8] mm: folio_zero_user: cache neighbouring pages Ankur Arora
2025-12-18 7:49 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-18 21:01 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-18 21:23 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-23 10:11 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-16 2:48 ` [PATCH v10 0/8] mm: folio_zero_user: clear contiguous pages Andrew Morton
2025-12-16 5:04 ` Ankur Arora
2025-12-18 7:38 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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