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-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index bd620b65db52..eb3dd37ccd7c 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
#include <linux/oom.h>
#include <linux/prefetch.h>
#include <linux/printk.h>
+#include <linux/dax.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/div64.h>
@@ -671,9 +672,15 @@ static int __remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page,
* inode reclaim needs to empty out the radix tree or
* the nodes are lost. Don't plant shadows behind its
* back.
+ *
+ * We also don't store shadows for DAX mappings because the
+ * only page cache pages found in these are zero pages
+ * covering holes, and because we don't want to mix DAX
+ * exceptional entries and shadow exceptional entries in the
+ * same page_tree.
*/
if (reclaimed && page_is_file_cache(page) &&
- !mapping_exiting(mapping))
+ !mapping_exiting(mapping) && !dax_mapping(mapping))
shadow = workingset_eviction(mapping, page);
__delete_from_page_cache(page, shadow, memcg);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);