diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 0372411f38fc..5daf5568b9e1 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2228,7 +2228,8 @@ int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
 		 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
 		 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
 		 */
-		ClearPageReclaim(page);
+		if (PageReclaim(page))
+			ClearPageReclaim(page);
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 		if (!spd)
 			spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;