diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index d6bd19e520fc..832f29f46767 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mincore, unsigned long, start, size_t, len,
 	start = untagged_addr(start);
 
 	/* Check the start address: needs to be page-aligned.. */
-	if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
+	if (unlikely(start & ~PAGE_MASK))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* ..and we need to be passed a valid user-space range */