diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index d1e2735ac22f077d3b58d5177842412f926ff41a..511011a1e85d1603423ce83cadf4ce46f0c187f7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1948,7 +1948,7 @@ extern void ext4_end_bitmap_read(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate);
 /* mballoc.c */
 extern long ext4_mb_stats;
 extern long ext4_mb_max_to_scan;
-extern int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *, int);
+extern int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *);
 extern int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *);
 extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle_t *,
 				struct ext4_allocation_request *, int *);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index ccb9c2f527d51be0232cfd5ce16ebd896905a02f..45cb31e8dd27a64b6c7c45683e2bce365565f54c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2375,7 +2375,7 @@ static int ext4_groupinfo_create_slab(size_t size)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery)
+int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
 	unsigned i, j;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index d9466a508414f5ef2ddbfef5a56cebcb4a349177..dbc9544c70871406b7bdde90613171696183b92b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3768,7 +3768,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	}
 
 	ext4_ext_init(sb);
-	err = ext4_mb_init(sb, needs_recovery);
+	err = ext4_mb_init(sb);
 	if (err) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "failed to initialize mballoc (%d)",
 			 err);