ARM: ZERO_PAGE: Avoid flush_dcache_page() for zero page

The zero page is read-only, and has its cache state cleared during
boot.  No further maintanence for this page is required.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
index 43474d8752a..82f4b06bf6b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
@@ -189,7 +189,16 @@ static void __flush_dcache_aliases(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *p
  */
 void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
 {
-        struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+        struct address_space *mapping;
+
+        /*
+         * The zero page is never written to, so never has any dirty
+         * cache lines, and therefore never needs to be flushed.
+         */
+        if (page == ZERO_PAGE(0))
+                return;
+
+        mapping = page_mapping(page);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
         if (!PageHighMem(page) && mapping && !mapping_mapped(mapping))