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diff --git a/include/linux/ksm.h b/include/linux/ksm.h
index 899a314bc487..98878107244f 100644
--- a/include/linux/ksm.h
+++ b/include/linux/ksm.h
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ int ksm_disable(struct mm_struct *mm);
int __ksm_enter(struct mm_struct *mm);
void __ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm);
+/*
+ * To identify zeropages that were mapped by KSM, we reuse the dirty bit
+ * in the PTE. If the PTE is dirty, the zeropage was mapped by KSM when
+ * deduplicating memory.
+ */
+#define is_ksm_zero_pte(pte) (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)) && pte_dirty(pte))
static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
{