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highmem: introduce clear_user_highpages()
authorAnkur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Wed, 7 Jan 2026 07:20:04 +0000 (23:20 -0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:24:39 +0000 (19:24 -0800)
commit8d846b723e5723d98d859df9feeab89c2c889fb2
tree2f6c8c5dd34667654fc2b35f1c628ed667324529
parent62a9f5a85b98d6d2d9b5e0d67b2d4e5903bc53ec
highmem: introduce clear_user_highpages()

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().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-4-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.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: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
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>
include/linux/highmem.h