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From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.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,
	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
	ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH v9 1/7] treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:23:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251121202352.494700-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251121202352.494700-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>

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.

We have to be a bit careful if an architecture provides a custom
clear_user_highpage(), because then it's very likely that some special
flushing magic is happening behind the scenes.

Maybe at some point these should be CONFIG_ options.

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>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
---

Notes:
    
   - For architectures which have a specialized version of clear_user_page(),
     define clear_user_page instead of __HAVE_ARCH_CLEAR_USER_PAGE.
   - m68k/include/asm/page_mm.h, sparc/include/asm/page_32.h already define
     clear_user_page() as a macro so we just use that instead.

 arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h      |  1 -
 arch/arc/include/asm/page.h        |  2 ++
 arch/arm/include/asm/page-nommu.h  |  1 -
 arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h      |  1 -
 arch/csky/abiv1/inc/abi/page.h     |  1 +
 arch/csky/abiv2/inc/abi/page.h     |  7 -------
 arch/hexagon/include/asm/page.h    |  1 -
 arch/loongarch/include/asm/page.h  |  1 -
 arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h    |  1 -
 arch/microblaze/include/asm/page.h |  1 -
 arch/mips/include/asm/page.h       |  1 +
 arch/nios2/include/asm/page.h      |  1 +
 arch/openrisc/include/asm/page.h   |  1 -
 arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h     |  1 -
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h    |  1 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h      |  1 -
 arch/s390/include/asm/page.h       |  1 -
 arch/sparc/include/asm/page_64.h   |  1 +
 arch/um/include/asm/page.h         |  1 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/page.h        |  6 ------
 arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h     |  1 -
 include/linux/mm.h                 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 22 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h
index 5ec4c77e432e..d71ef845deca 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 #define STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
 
 extern void clear_page(void *page);
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 
 #define vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vma, vaddr) \
 	vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_ZERO, 0, vma, vaddr)
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h
index 9720fe6b2c24..38214e126c6d 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ struct page;
 
 void copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
 			unsigned long u_vaddr, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+
+#define clear_user_page clear_user_page
 void clear_user_page(void *to, unsigned long u_vaddr, struct page *page);
 
 typedef struct {
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/page-nommu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/page-nommu.h
index 7c2c72323d17..e74415c959be 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/page-nommu.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/page-nommu.h
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 #define clear_page(page)	memset((page), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
 #define copy_page(to,from)	memcpy((to), (from), PAGE_SIZE)
 
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)	copy_page(to, from)
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
index 258cca4b4873..0e8de245e283 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ struct folio *vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 bool tag_clear_highpages(struct page *to, int numpages);
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_TAG_CLEAR_HIGHPAGES
 
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)	copy_page(to, from)
 
 typedef struct page *pgtable_t;
diff --git a/arch/csky/abiv1/inc/abi/page.h b/arch/csky/abiv1/inc/abi/page.h
index 2d2159933b76..58307254e7e5 100644
--- a/arch/csky/abiv1/inc/abi/page.h
+++ b/arch/csky/abiv1/inc/abi/page.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ static inline unsigned long pages_do_alias(unsigned long addr1,
 	return (addr1 ^ addr2) & (SHMLBA-1);
 }
 
+#define clear_user_page clear_user_page
 static inline void clear_user_page(void *addr, unsigned long vaddr,
 				   struct page *page)
 {
diff --git a/arch/csky/abiv2/inc/abi/page.h b/arch/csky/abiv2/inc/abi/page.h
index cf005f13cd15..a5a255013308 100644
--- a/arch/csky/abiv2/inc/abi/page.h
+++ b/arch/csky/abiv2/inc/abi/page.h
@@ -1,11 +1,4 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-
-static inline void clear_user_page(void *addr, unsigned long vaddr,
-				   struct page *page)
-{
-	clear_page(addr);
-}
-
 static inline void copy_user_page(void *to, void *from, unsigned long vaddr,
 				  struct page *page)
 {
diff --git a/arch/hexagon/include/asm/page.h b/arch/hexagon/include/asm/page.h
index 137ba7c5de48..f0aed3ed812b 100644
--- a/arch/hexagon/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/hexagon/include/asm/page.h
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ static inline void clear_page(void *page)
 /*
  * Under assumption that kernel always "sees" user map...
  */
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)	copy_page(to, from)
 
 static inline unsigned long virt_to_pfn(const void *kaddr)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/include/asm/page.h b/arch/loongarch/include/asm/page.h
index a3aaf34fba16..b83415fe4ffb 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/loongarch/include/asm/page.h
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 extern void clear_page(void *page);
 extern void copy_page(void *to, void *from);
 
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)	copy_page(to, from)
 
 extern unsigned long shm_align_mask;
diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h
index 39db2026a4b4..d2532bc407ef 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h
+++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ extern unsigned long memory_end;
 #define clear_page(page)	memset((page), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
 #define copy_page(to,from)	memcpy((to), (from), PAGE_SIZE)
 
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)	copy_page(to, from)
 
 #define vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vma, vaddr) \
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/page.h b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/page.h
index 90ac9f34b4b4..e1e396367ba7 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/page.h
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ typedef unsigned long pte_basic_t;
 # define copy_page(to, from)			memcpy((to), (from), PAGE_SIZE)
 # define clear_page(pgaddr)			memset((pgaddr), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
 
-# define clear_user_page(pgaddr, vaddr, page)	memset((pgaddr), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
 # define copy_user_page(vto, vfrom, vaddr, topg) \
 			memcpy((vto), (vfrom), PAGE_SIZE)
 
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/page.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/page.h
index bc3e3484c1bf..5ec428fcc887 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/page.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ static inline void clear_user_page(void *addr, unsigned long vaddr,
 	if (pages_do_alias((unsigned long) addr, vaddr & PAGE_MASK))
 		flush_data_cache_page((unsigned long)addr);
 }
+#define clear_user_page clear_user_page
 
 struct vm_area_struct;
 extern void copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
diff --git a/arch/nios2/include/asm/page.h b/arch/nios2/include/asm/page.h
index 00a51623d38a..722956ac0bf8 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/page.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 
 struct page;
 
+#define clear_user_page clear_user_page
 extern void clear_user_page(void *addr, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *page);
 extern void copy_user_page(void *vto, void *vfrom, unsigned long vaddr,
 				struct page *to);
diff --git a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/page.h
index 85797f94d1d7..d2cdbf3579bb 100644
--- a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 #define clear_page(page)	memset((page), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
 #define copy_page(to, from)	memcpy((to), (from), PAGE_SIZE)
 
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)        clear_page(page)
 #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)     copy_page(to, from)
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h
index 8f4e51071ea1..3630b36d07da 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 
 void clear_page_asm(void *page);
 void copy_page_asm(void *to, void *from);
-#define clear_user_page(vto, vaddr, page) clear_page_asm(vto)
 void copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from, unsigned long vaddr,
 		struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
index b28fbb1d57eb..f2bb1f98eebe 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ static inline const void *pfn_to_kaddr(unsigned long pfn)
 
 struct page;
 extern void clear_user_page(void *page, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *pg);
+#define clear_user_page clear_user_page
 extern void copy_user_page(void *to, void *from, unsigned long vaddr,
 		struct page *p);
 extern int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
index ffe213ad65a4..061b60b954ec 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ void clear_page(void *page);
 #endif
 #define copy_page(to, from)			memcpy((to), (from), PAGE_SIZE)
 
-#define clear_user_page(pgaddr, vaddr, page)	clear_page(pgaddr)
 #define copy_user_page(vto, vfrom, vaddr, topg) \
 			memcpy((vto), (vfrom), PAGE_SIZE)
 
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/page.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/page.h
index 9240a363c893..6635ba56d4b2 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/page.h
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ static inline void copy_page(void *to, void *from)
 		: : "memory", "cc");
 }
 
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)	copy_page(to, from)
 
 #define vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vma, vaddr) \
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/page_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/page_64.h
index d764d8a8586b..fd4dc85fb38b 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/page_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/page_64.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ void _clear_page(void *page);
 #define clear_page(X)	_clear_page((void *)(X))
 struct page;
 void clear_user_page(void *addr, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *page);
+#define clear_user_page clear_user_page
 #define copy_page(X,Y)	memcpy((void *)(X), (void *)(Y), PAGE_SIZE)
 void copy_user_page(void *to, void *from, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *topage);
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE
diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/page.h b/arch/um/include/asm/page.h
index 6f54254aaf44..8cea97a9c8f9 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/page.h
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ struct page;
 #define clear_page(page)	memset((void *)(page), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
 #define copy_page(to,from)	memcpy((void *)(to), (void *)(from), PAGE_SIZE)
 
-#define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)	copy_page(to, from)
 
 typedef struct { unsigned long pte; } pte_t;
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
index 9265f2fca99a..416dc88e35c1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
@@ -22,12 +22,6 @@ struct page;
 extern struct range pfn_mapped[];
 extern int nr_pfn_mapped;
 
-static inline void clear_user_page(void *page, unsigned long vaddr,
-				   struct page *pg)
-{
-	clear_page(page);
-}
-
 static inline void copy_user_page(void *to, void *from, unsigned long vaddr,
 				  struct page *topage)
 {
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h
index 20655174b111..059493256765 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ void clear_user_highpage(struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr);
 void copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
 			unsigned long vaddr, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 #else
-# define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
 # define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg)	copy_page(to, from)
 #endif
 
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 7c79b3369b82..6fa6c188f99a 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3879,6 +3879,28 @@ static inline void clear_page_guard(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
 				unsigned int order) {}
 #endif	/* CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC */
 
+#ifndef clear_user_page
+/**
+ * clear_user_page() - clear a page to be mapped to user space
+ * @addr: the address of the page
+ * @vaddr: the address of the user mapping
+ * @page: the page
+ */
+static inline void clear_user_page(void *addr, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *page)
+{
+#ifdef clear_user_highpage
+	/*
+	 * If an architecture defines its own clear_user_highpage() variant,
+	 * then we have to be a bit more careful here and cannot simply
+	 * rely on clear_page().
+	 */
+	clear_user_highpage(page, vaddr);
+#else
+	clear_page(addr);
+#endif
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA
 extern struct vm_area_struct *get_gate_vma(struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern int in_gate_area_no_mm(unsigned long addr);
-- 
2.31.1


  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-21 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-21 20:23 [PATCH v9 0/7] mm: folio_zero_user: clear contiguous pages Ankur Arora
2025-11-21 20:23 ` Ankur Arora [this message]
2025-11-23 11:53   ` [PATCH v9 1/7] treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2025-11-24 10:17     ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-24 14:02       ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-25  7:52       ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-27 23:57         ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-28  7:39           ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2025-11-28 22:19             ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-21 20:23 ` [PATCH v9 2/7] mm: introduce clear_pages() and clear_user_pages() Ankur Arora
2025-11-23 13:17   ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2025-11-24 10:26     ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-28 10:13       ` Lance Yang
2025-11-28 21:59         ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-21 20:23 ` [PATCH v9 3/7] mm/highmem: introduce clear_user_highpages() Ankur Arora
2025-11-21 20:23 ` [PATCH v9 4/7] x86/mm: Simplify clear_page_* Ankur Arora
2025-11-25 13:47   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-11-25 19:01     ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-26 10:01   ` Mateusz Guzik
2025-11-27  5:28     ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-21 20:23 ` [PATCH v9 5/7] x86/clear_page: Introduce clear_pages() Ankur Arora
2025-11-21 20:23 ` [PATCH v9 6/7] mm, folio_zero_user: support clearing page ranges Ankur Arora
2025-11-21 20:23 ` [PATCH v9 7/7] mm: folio_zero_user: cache neighbouring pages Ankur Arora

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