Re: [PATCH v8 2/7] mm: introduce clear_pages() and clear_user_pages()

From: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)

Date: Fri Nov 07 2025 - 03:48:00 EST


On 27.10.25 21:21, Ankur Arora wrote:
Introduce clear_pages(), to be overridden by architectures that
support more efficient clearing of consecutive pages.

Also introduce clear_user_pages(), however, we will not expect
this function to be overridden anytime soon.

We have to place the clear_user_pages() variant that uses
clear_user_page() into mm/util.c for now to work around
macro magic on sparc and m68k.

Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers

David