diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 96e1dc3..a186e5d 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -56,15 +56,11 @@
 /*
  * reclaim_mode determines how the inactive list is shrunk
  * RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE: Reclaim only order-0 pages
- * RECLAIM_MODE_ASYNC:  Do not block
- * RECLAIM_MODE_SYNC:   Allow blocking e.g. call wait_on_page_writeback
  * RECLAIM_MODE_COMPACTION: For high-order allocations, reclaim a number of
  *			order-0 pages and then compact the zone
  */
 typedef unsigned __bitwise__ reclaim_mode_t;
 #define RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE		((__force reclaim_mode_t)0x01u)
-#define RECLAIM_MODE_ASYNC		((__force reclaim_mode_t)0x02u)
-#define RECLAIM_MODE_SYNC		((__force reclaim_mode_t)0x04u)
 #define RECLAIM_MODE_COMPACTION		((__force reclaim_mode_t)0x10u)
 
 struct scan_control {
@@ -380,12 +376,8 @@
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void set_reclaim_mode(int priority, struct scan_control *sc,
-				   bool sync)
+static void set_reclaim_mode(int priority, struct scan_control *sc)
 {
-	/* Sync reclaim used only for compaction */
-	reclaim_mode_t syncmode = sync ? RECLAIM_MODE_SYNC : RECLAIM_MODE_ASYNC;
-
 	/*
 	 * Restrict reclaim/compaction to costly allocations or when
 	 * under memory pressure
@@ -393,14 +385,14 @@
 	if (COMPACTION_BUILD && sc->order &&
 			(sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER ||
 			 priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2))
-		sc->reclaim_mode = RECLAIM_MODE_COMPACTION | syncmode;
+		sc->reclaim_mode = RECLAIM_MODE_COMPACTION;
 	else
-		sc->reclaim_mode = RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE | RECLAIM_MODE_ASYNC;
+		sc->reclaim_mode = RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE;
 }
 
 static void reset_reclaim_mode(struct scan_control *sc)
 {
-	sc->reclaim_mode = RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE | RECLAIM_MODE_ASYNC;
+	sc->reclaim_mode = RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE;
 }
 
 static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page)
@@ -811,19 +803,8 @@
 
 		if (PageWriteback(page)) {
 			nr_writeback++;
-			/*
-			 * Synchronous reclaim cannot queue pages for
-			 * writeback due to the possibility of stack overflow
-			 * but if it encounters a page under writeback, wait
-			 * for the IO to complete.
-			 */
-			if ((sc->reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_MODE_SYNC) &&
-			    may_enter_fs)
-				wait_on_page_writeback(page);
-			else {
-				unlock_page(page);
-				goto keep_reclaim_mode;
-			}
+			unlock_page(page);
+			goto keep;
 		}
 
 		references = page_check_references(page, mz, sc);
@@ -906,7 +887,7 @@
 				goto activate_locked;
 			case PAGE_SUCCESS:
 				if (PageWriteback(page))
-					goto keep_reclaim_mode;
+					goto keep;
 				if (PageDirty(page))
 					goto keep;
 
@@ -1005,8 +986,6 @@
 keep_locked:
 		unlock_page(page);
 keep:
-		reset_reclaim_mode(sc);
-keep_reclaim_mode:
 		list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages);
 		VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page) || PageUnevictable(page));
 	}
@@ -1357,47 +1336,6 @@
 }
 
 /*
- * Returns true if a direct reclaim should wait on pages under writeback.
- *
- * If we are direct reclaiming for contiguous pages and we do not reclaim
- * everything in the list, try again and wait for writeback IO to complete.
- * This will stall high-order allocations noticeably. Only do that when really
- * need to free the pages under high memory pressure.
- */
-static inline bool should_reclaim_stall(unsigned long nr_taken,
-					unsigned long nr_freed,
-					int priority,
-					struct scan_control *sc)
-{
-	int stall_priority;
-
-	/* kswapd should not stall on sync IO */
-	if (current_is_kswapd())
-		return false;
-
-	/* Only stall for memory compaction */
-	if (sc->reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE)
-		return false;
-
-	/* If we have reclaimed everything on the isolated list, no stall */
-	if (nr_freed == nr_taken)
-		return false;
-
-	/*
-	 * For high-order allocations, there are two stall thresholds.
-	 * High-cost allocations stall immediately where as lower
-	 * order allocations such as stacks require the scanning
-	 * priority to be much higher before stalling.
-	 */
-	if (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
-		stall_priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
-	else
-		stall_priority = DEF_PRIORITY / 3;
-
-	return priority <= stall_priority;
-}
-
-/*
  * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_zone().  It returns the number
  * of reclaimed pages
  */
@@ -1426,7 +1364,7 @@
 			return SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
 	}
 
-	set_reclaim_mode(priority, sc, false);
+	set_reclaim_mode(priority, sc);
 
 	lru_add_drain();
 
@@ -1458,13 +1396,6 @@
 	nr_reclaimed = shrink_page_list(&page_list, mz, sc, priority,
 						&nr_dirty, &nr_writeback);
 
-	/* Check if we should syncronously wait for writeback */
-	if (should_reclaim_stall(nr_taken, nr_reclaimed, priority, sc)) {
-		set_reclaim_mode(priority, sc, true);
-		nr_reclaimed += shrink_page_list(&page_list, mz, sc,
-					priority, &nr_dirty, &nr_writeback);
-	}
-
 	spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
 
 	reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] += nr_anon;