[PATCH 6.1.y 2/3] highmem: add kernel-doc for memcpy_*_folio()

From: Johnny Hao

Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 01:02:37 EST


From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 9af47276ed83cc346263e56243756543a2a33c9d ]

This was inadvertently skipped when adding the new functions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124181217.1761674-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johnny Hao <johnny_haocn@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/highmem.h | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 164 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index 44242268f53b..a2a0cfbc19a0 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -415,6 +415,170 @@ static inline void memzero_page(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t len)
kunmap_local(addr);
}

+/**
+ * memcpy_from_folio - Copy a range of bytes from a folio.
+ * @to: The memory to copy to.
+ * @folio: The folio to read from.
+ * @offset: The first byte in the folio to read.
+ * @len: The number of bytes to copy.
+ */
+static inline void memcpy_from_folio(char *to, struct folio *folio,
+ size_t offset, size_t len)
+{
+ VM_BUG_ON(offset + len > folio_size(folio));
+
+ do {
+ const char *from = kmap_local_folio(folio, offset);
+ size_t chunk = len;
+
+ if (folio_test_highmem(folio) &&
+ chunk > PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(offset))
+ chunk = PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(offset);
+ memcpy(to, from, chunk);
+ kunmap_local(from);
+
+ to += chunk;
+ offset += chunk;
+ len -= chunk;
+ } while (len > 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * memcpy_to_folio - Copy a range of bytes to a folio.
+ * @folio: The folio to write to.
+ * @offset: The first byte in the folio to store to.
+ * @from: The memory to copy from.
+ * @len: The number of bytes to copy.
+ */
+static inline void memcpy_to_folio(struct folio *folio, size_t offset,
+ const char *from, size_t len)
+{
+ VM_BUG_ON(offset + len > folio_size(folio));
+
+ do {
+ char *to = kmap_local_folio(folio, offset);
+ size_t chunk = len;
+
+ if (folio_test_highmem(folio) &&
+ chunk > PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(offset))
+ chunk = PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(offset);
+ memcpy(to, from, chunk);
+ kunmap_local(to);
+
+ from += chunk;
+ offset += chunk;
+ len -= chunk;
+ } while (len > 0);
+
+ flush_dcache_folio(folio);
+}
+
+/**
+ * folio_zero_tail - Zero the tail of a folio.
+ * @folio: The folio to zero.
+ * @offset: The byte offset in the folio to start zeroing at.
+ * @kaddr: The address the folio is currently mapped to.
+ *
+ * If you have already used kmap_local_folio() to map a folio, written
+ * some data to it and now need to zero the end of the folio (and flush
+ * the dcache), you can use this function. If you do not have the
+ * folio kmapped (eg the folio has been partially populated by DMA),
+ * use folio_zero_range() or folio_zero_segment() instead.
+ *
+ * Return: An address which can be passed to kunmap_local().
+ */
+static inline __must_check void *folio_zero_tail(struct folio *folio,
+ size_t offset, void *kaddr)
+{
+ size_t len = folio_size(folio) - offset;
+
+ if (folio_test_highmem(folio)) {
+ size_t max = PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(offset);
+
+ while (len > max) {
+ memset(kaddr, 0, max);
+ kunmap_local(kaddr);
+ len -= max;
+ offset += max;
+ max = PAGE_SIZE;
+ kaddr = kmap_local_folio(folio, offset);
+ }
+ }
+
+ memset(kaddr, 0, len);
+ flush_dcache_folio(folio);
+
+ return kaddr;
+}
+
+/**
+ * folio_fill_tail - Copy some data to a folio and pad with zeroes.
+ * @folio: The destination folio.
+ * @offset: The offset into @folio at which to start copying.
+ * @from: The data to copy.
+ * @len: How many bytes of data to copy.
+ *
+ * This function is most useful for filesystems which support inline data.
+ * When they want to copy data from the inode into the page cache, this
+ * function does everything for them. It supports large folios even on
+ * HIGHMEM configurations.
+ */
+static inline void folio_fill_tail(struct folio *folio, size_t offset,
+ const char *from, size_t len)
+{
+ char *to = kmap_local_folio(folio, offset);
+
+ VM_BUG_ON(offset + len > folio_size(folio));
+
+ if (folio_test_highmem(folio)) {
+ size_t max = PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(offset);
+
+ while (len > max) {
+ memcpy(to, from, max);
+ kunmap_local(to);
+ len -= max;
+ from += max;
+ offset += max;
+ max = PAGE_SIZE;
+ to = kmap_local_folio(folio, offset);
+ }
+ }
+
+ memcpy(to, from, len);
+ to = folio_zero_tail(folio, offset + len, to + len);
+ kunmap_local(to);
+}
+
+/**
+ * memcpy_from_file_folio - Copy some bytes from a file folio.
+ * @to: The destination buffer.
+ * @folio: The folio to copy from.
+ * @pos: The position in the file.
+ * @len: The maximum number of bytes to copy.
+ *
+ * Copy up to @len bytes from this folio. This may be limited by PAGE_SIZE
+ * if the folio comes from HIGHMEM, and by the size of the folio.
+ *
+ * Return: The number of bytes copied from the folio.
+ */
+static inline size_t memcpy_from_file_folio(char *to, struct folio *folio,
+ loff_t pos, size_t len)
+{
+ size_t offset = offset_in_folio(folio, pos);
+ char *from = kmap_local_folio(folio, offset);
+
+ if (folio_test_highmem(folio)) {
+ offset = offset_in_page(offset);
+ len = min_t(size_t, len, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
+ } else
+ len = min(len, folio_size(folio) - offset);
+
+ memcpy(to, from, len);
+ kunmap_local(from);
+
+ return len;
+}
+
/**
* folio_zero_segments() - Zero two byte ranges in a folio.
* @folio: The folio to write to.
--
2.34.1