diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index a03f1b61ae74..85cd6d91d715 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: bbee3aec3472fc2ca10b6b1020aec84567ea25ce
+refs/heads/master: 5e4bf1a55da976a5ed60901bb8801f1024ef9774
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/trunk/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 8573b83a63d0..8a828d773e58 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -328,7 +328,12 @@ int pmdp_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (changed && dirty) {
 		*pmdp = entry;
 		pmd_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp);
-		flush_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
+		/*
+		 * We had a write-protection fault here and changed the pmd
+		 * to to more permissive. No need to flush the TLB for that,
+		 * #PF is architecturally guaranteed to do that and in the
+		 * worst-case we'll generate a spurious fault.
+		 */
 	}
 
 	return changed;