Subject: [PATCH v7 12/15] sh: Drop cache flush of the zero page at boot

From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 17:02:03 +0200

From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email-masked]>

SuperH performs cache maintenance on the zero page during boot,
presumably because before commit

  6215d9f4470f ("arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page")

the zero page did double duty as a boot params region, and was cleared
separately, as it was not part of BSS. The memset() in question was
dropped by that commit, but the __flush_wback_region() call remained.

As empty_zero_page[] has been moved to BSS, it can be treated as any
other BSS memory, and so the cache flush can be dropped.

Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email-masked]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email-masked]>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email-masked]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/sh/mm/init.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/init.c b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
index 4e40d5e96be9..110308bdef01 100644
--- a/arch/sh/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
@@ -331,9 +331,6 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 	/* Set this up early, so we can take care of the zero page */
 	cpu_cache_init();
 
-	/* clear the zero-page */
-	__flush_wback_region(empty_zero_page, PAGE_SIZE);
-
 	vsyscall_init();
 
 	pr_info("virtual kernel memory layout:\n"
-- 
2.54.0.823.g6e5bcc1fc9-goog