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-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 561a42567477..811d19b5c4f6 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2206,9 +2206,12 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
if (!young)
entry = pte_mkold(entry);
- /* NOTE: this may set soft-dirty too on some archs */
- if (dirty)
- entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
+ /*
+ * NOTE: we don't do pte_mkdirty when dirty==true
+ * because it breaks sparc64 which can sigsegv
+ * random process. Need to revisit when we figure
+ * out what is special with sparc64.
+ */
if (soft_dirty)
entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
if (uffd_wp)