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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


  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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