diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
index 8148b30a9df1..96b1c157554c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -231,22 +231,27 @@ static inline bool lru_gen_add_folio(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct folio *folio,
 	if (folio_test_unevictable(folio) || !lrugen->enabled)
 		return false;
 	/*
-	 * There are three common cases for this page:
-	 * 1. If it's hot, e.g., freshly faulted in or previously hot and
-	 *    migrated, add it to the youngest generation.
-	 * 2. If it's cold but can't be evicted immediately, i.e., an anon page
-	 *    not in swapcache or a dirty page pending writeback, add it to the
-	 *    second oldest generation.
-	 * 3. Everything else (clean, cold) is added to the oldest generation.
+	 * There are four common cases for this page:
+	 * 1. If it's hot, i.e., freshly faulted in, add it to the youngest
+	 *    generation, and it's protected over the rest below.
+	 * 2. If it can't be evicted immediately, i.e., a dirty page pending
+	 *    writeback, add it to the second youngest generation.
+	 * 3. If it should be evicted first, e.g., cold and clean from
+	 *    folio_rotate_reclaimable(), add it to the oldest generation.
+	 * 4. Everything else falls between 2 & 3 above and is added to the
+	 *    second oldest generation if it's considered inactive, or the
+	 *    oldest generation otherwise. See lru_gen_is_active().
 	 */
 	if (folio_test_active(folio))
 		seq = lrugen->max_seq;
 	else if ((type == LRU_GEN_ANON && !folio_test_swapcache(folio)) ||
 		 (folio_test_reclaim(folio) &&
 		  (folio_test_dirty(folio) || folio_test_writeback(folio))))
-		seq = lrugen->min_seq[type] + 1;
-	else
+		seq = lrugen->max_seq - 1;
+	else if (reclaiming || lrugen->min_seq[type] + MIN_NR_GENS >= lrugen->max_seq)
 		seq = lrugen->min_seq[type];
+	else
+		seq = lrugen->min_seq[type] + 1;
 
 	gen = lru_gen_from_seq(seq);
 	flags = (gen + 1UL) << LRU_GEN_PGOFF;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 6f13394b112e..65ef14146c85 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4933,7 +4933,7 @@ static bool sort_folio(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct folio *folio, struct scan_c
 	}
 
 	/* protected */
-	if (tier > tier_idx) {
+	if (tier > tier_idx || refs == BIT(LRU_REFS_WIDTH)) {
 		int hist = lru_hist_from_seq(lrugen->min_seq[type]);
 
 		gen = folio_inc_gen(lruvec, folio, false);
diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index da58a26d0d4d..2559a1f2fc1c 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -313,10 +313,10 @@ static void lru_gen_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
 	 * 1. For pages accessed through page tables, hotter pages pushed out
 	 *    hot pages which refaulted immediately.
 	 * 2. For pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors,
-	 *    numbers of accesses might have been out of the range.
+	 *    they would have been protected by sort_folio().
 	 */
-	if (lru_gen_in_fault() || refs == BIT(LRU_REFS_WIDTH)) {
-		folio_set_workingset(folio);
+	if (lru_gen_in_fault() || refs >= BIT(LRU_REFS_WIDTH) - 1) {
+		set_mask_bits(&folio->flags, 0, LRU_REFS_MASK | BIT(PG_workingset));
 		mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_RESTORE_BASE + type, delta);
 	}
 unlock: