[PATCH v7 11/16] mm/highmem: introduce clear_user_highpages()

From: Ankur Arora

Date: Wed Sep 17 2025 - 11:27:11 EST


Define clear_user_highpages() which clears pages sequentially using
the single page variant.

With !CONFIG_HIGHMEM, pages are contiguous so use the range clearing
primitive clear_user_pages().

Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/highmem.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index 6234f316468c..ed609987e24d 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -207,6 +207,24 @@ static inline void clear_user_highpage(struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr)
}
#endif

+#ifndef clear_user_highpages
+static inline void clear_user_highpages(struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr,
+ unsigned int npages)
+{
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HIGHMEM)) {
+ void *base = page_address(page);
+ clear_user_pages(base, vaddr, page, npages);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ do {
+ clear_user_highpage(page, vaddr);
+ vaddr += PAGE_SIZE;
+ page++;
+ } while (--npages);
+}
+#endif
+
#ifndef vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio
/**
* vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio - Allocate a zeroed page for a VMA.
--
2.43.5