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x86/mm: simplify clear_page_*
authorAnkur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Wed, 7 Jan 2026 07:20:05 +0000 (23:20 -0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:24:40 +0000 (19:24 -0800)
commit54a6b89a3db2ecb4462abcd6e6e52dfebaa7e6c4
treee8cd387894809d74c67ea6547310eba03461b9c1
parent8d846b723e5723d98d859df9feeab89c2c889fb2
x86/mm: simplify clear_page_*

clear_page_rep() and clear_page_erms() are wrappers around "REP; STOS"
variations.  Inlining gets rid of an unnecessary CALL/RET (which isn't
free when using RETHUNK speculative execution mitigations.) Fixup and
rename clear_page_orig() to adapt to the changed calling convention.

Also add a comment from Dave Hansen detailing various clearing mechanisms
used in clear_page().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-5-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzessutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h
arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h
arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S