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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] spi: pl022: use generic DMA slave configuration if
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 16:20:31 +0000
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 07:29:17PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Actually I once read about a feature where the kernel provides
> a static page full of zeroes or something like this, that would be
> ideal to use in cases like this, then all of this dummy page
> allocation and freeing can be deleted.

I think you're thinking of empty_zero_page which is used to provide the
initial BSS pages for user apps.