diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 64bf28cf05cd..fef457a42882 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
 	mapping->flags = 0;
 	mapping->wb_err = 0;
 	atomic_set(&mapping->i_mmap_writable, 0);
+#ifdef CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
+	atomic_set(&mapping->nr_thps, 0);
+#endif
 	mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
 	mapping->private_data = NULL;
 	mapping->writeback_index = 0;
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index a59abe3c669a..c60cd22cc052 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -818,6 +818,14 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
 		if (!f->f_mapping->a_ops || !f->f_mapping->a_ops->direct_IO)
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * XXX: Huge page cache doesn't support writing yet. Drop all page
+	 * cache for this file before processing writes.
+	 */
+	if ((f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && filemap_nr_thps(inode->i_mapping))
+		truncate_pagecache(inode, 0);
+
 	return 0;
 
 cleanup_all:
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 866268c2c6e3..b0c6b0d34d02 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ int pagecache_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
  * @i_pages: Cached pages.
  * @gfp_mask: Memory allocation flags to use for allocating pages.
  * @i_mmap_writable: Number of VM_SHARED mappings.
+ * @nr_thps: Number of THPs in the pagecache (non-shmem only).
  * @i_mmap: Tree of private and shared mappings.
  * @i_mmap_rwsem: Protects @i_mmap and @i_mmap_writable.
  * @nrpages: Number of page entries, protected by the i_pages lock.
@@ -446,6 +447,10 @@ struct address_space {
 	struct xarray		i_pages;
 	gfp_t			gfp_mask;
 	atomic_t		i_mmap_writable;
+#ifdef CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
+	/* number of thp, only for non-shmem files */
+	atomic_t		nr_thps;
+#endif
 	struct rb_root_cached	i_mmap;
 	struct rw_semaphore	i_mmap_rwsem;
 	unsigned long		nrpages;
@@ -2798,6 +2803,33 @@ static inline errseq_t filemap_sample_wb_err(struct address_space *mapping)
 	return errseq_sample(&mapping->wb_err);
 }
 
+static inline int filemap_nr_thps(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
+	return atomic_read(&mapping->nr_thps);
+#else
+	return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
+static inline void filemap_nr_thps_inc(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
+	atomic_inc(&mapping->nr_thps);
+#else
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+#endif
+}
+
+static inline void filemap_nr_thps_dec(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
+	atomic_dec(&mapping->nr_thps);
+#else
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+#endif
+}
+
 extern int vfs_fsync_range(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
 			   int datasync);
 extern int vfs_fsync(struct file *file, int datasync);
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 91fe3a08ca4a..1146fcfa3215 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ static void unaccount_page_cache_page(struct address_space *mapping,
 			__dec_node_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM_THPS);
 	} else if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
 		__dec_node_page_state(page, NR_FILE_THPS);
+		filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);
 	}
 
 	/*
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 8607c77431b3..e89430ec5267 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1514,8 +1514,10 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 	if (is_shmem)
 		__inc_node_page_state(new_page, NR_SHMEM_THPS);
-	else
+	else {
 		__inc_node_page_state(new_page, NR_FILE_THPS);
+		filemap_nr_thps_inc(mapping);
+	}
 
 	if (nr_none) {
 		struct zone *zone = page_zone(new_page);