linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 11/15] mm: define clear_pages(), clear_user

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Message-Id: <20250902080816.3715913-12-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Date: Tue,  2 Sep 2025 01:08:12 -0700
From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org
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        ankur.a.arora@...cle.com
Subject: [PATCH v6 11/15] mm: define clear_pages(), clear_user_pages()

Define fallback versions of clear_pages(), clear_user_pages().

In absence of architectural primitives, these just do straight clearing
sequentially.

Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 1ae97a0b8ec7..b8c3f265b497 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3768,6 +3768,38 @@ static inline void clear_page_guard(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
 				unsigned int order) {}
 #endif	/* CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC */
 
+#ifndef ARCH_PAGE_CONTIG_NR
+#define PAGE_CONTIG_NR	1
+#else
+#define PAGE_CONTIG_NR	ARCH_PAGE_CONTIG_NR
+#endif
+
+#ifndef clear_pages
+/*
+ * clear_pages() - clear kernel page range.
+ * @addr: start address of page range
+ * @npages: number of pages
+ *
+ * Assumes that (@addr, +@...ges) references a kernel region.
+ * Like clear_page(), this does absolutely no exception handling.
+ */
+static inline void clear_pages(void *addr, unsigned int npages)
+{
+	for (int i = 0; i < npages; i++)
+		clear_page(addr + i * PAGE_SIZE);
+}
+#endif
+
+#ifndef clear_user_pages
+static inline void clear_user_pages(void *addr, unsigned long vaddr,
+				    struct page *pg, unsigned int npages)
+{
+	for (int i = 0; i < npages; i++)
+		clear_user_page(addr + i * PAGE_SIZE,
+				vaddr + i * PAGE_SIZE, pg + i);
+}
+#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);
-- 
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