2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mm.h b/arch/arm/mm/mm.h
index 6776160618ef..a8ee92da3544 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mm.h
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mm.h
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ extern void __flush_dcache_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page
 /* permanent static mappings from iotable_init() */
 #define VM_ARM_STATIC_MAPPING   0x40000000
 
+/* empty mapping */
+#define VM_ARM_EMPTY_MAPPING    0x20000000
+
 /* mapping type (attributes) for permanent static mappings */
 #define VM_ARM_MTYPE(mt)                ((mt) << 20)
 #define VM_ARM_MTYPE_MASK       (0x1f << 20)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index 4c2d0451e84a..eab94bc6f805 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ static void __init pmd_empty_section_gap(unsigned long addr)
         vm = early_alloc_aligned(sizeof(*vm), __alignof__(*vm));
         vm->addr = (void *)addr;
         vm->size = SECTION_SIZE;
-        vm->flags = VM_IOREMAP | VM_ARM_STATIC_MAPPING;
+        vm->flags = VM_IOREMAP | VM_ARM_EMPTY_MAPPING;
         vm->caller = pmd_empty_section_gap;
         vm_area_add_early(vm);
 }
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ static void __init fill_pmd_gaps(void)
 
         /* we're still single threaded hence no lock needed here */
         for (vm = vmlist; vm; vm = vm->next) {
-                if (!(vm->flags & VM_ARM_STATIC_MAPPING))
+                if (!(vm->flags & (VM_ARM_STATIC_MAPPING | VM_ARM_EMPTY_MAPPING)))
                         continue;
                 addr = (unsigned long)vm->addr;
                 if (addr < next)