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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-10-25 10:23:04 +0000
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-12-01 18:20:07 +0000
commit421fe93cc4b06b2f5e875cbe0f692800d4862ee5 (patch)
tree88c5985799273a7c854159246d715e1ad85646f9 /arch/arm/mm/flush.c
parentb7dc0b2cfc6e9bc7270915c642a8a8e999b6095e (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm/flush.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/flush.c11
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))