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diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 1cc4a5f4791e..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)
@@ -2455,7 +2458,16 @@ static void __split_huge_page_tail(struct page *head, int tail,
page_tail);
page_tail->mapping = head->mapping;
page_tail->index = head->index + tail;
- page_tail->private = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * page->private should not be set in tail pages with the exception
+ * of swap cache pages that store the swp_entry_t in tail pages.
+ * Fix up and warn once if private is unexpectedly set.
+ */
+ if (!folio_test_swapcache(page_folio(head))) {
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(page_tail->private != 0, page_tail);
+ page_tail->private = 0;
+ }
/* Page flags must be visible before we make the page non-compound. */
smp_wmb();