diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index f469315a6a0f..5b38fbef9441 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3678,6 +3678,12 @@ int huge_add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
 		return err;
 	ClearPagePrivate(page);
 
+	/*
+	 * set page dirty so that it will not be removed from cache/file
+	 * by non-hugetlbfs specific code paths.
+	 */
+	set_page_dirty(page);
+
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 	inode->i_blocks += blocks_per_huge_page(h);
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);