diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 3c7f03b669fb62a7a9158b8d699a24249e51c66d..a1f6b4438fb12cbd5b49a648b986f58354079bf0 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 	desc->entry = &my_entry;
 
 	nfs_block_sillyrename(dentry);
-	res = nfs_revalidate_mapping_nolock(inode, filp->f_mapping);
+	res = nfs_revalidate_mapping(inode, filp->f_mapping);
 	if (res < 0)
 		goto out;
 
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index e8b41170d2954725f8373fc7784e9fa7526b1316..dbaaf7d2a1885e9ecd24cf7b6c3576bd6be1dda9 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ int nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode)
 	return __nfs_revalidate_inode(server, inode);
 }
 
-static int nfs_invalidate_mapping_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping)
+static int nfs_invalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping)
 {
 	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
 	
@@ -775,49 +775,10 @@ static int nfs_invalidate_mapping_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_spa
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int nfs_invalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping)
-{
-	int ret = 0;
-
-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	if (NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity & NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA) {
-		ret = nfs_sync_mapping(mapping);
-		if (ret == 0)
-			ret = nfs_invalidate_mapping_nolock(inode, mapping);
-	}
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-/**
- * nfs_revalidate_mapping_nolock - Revalidate the pagecache
- * @inode - pointer to host inode
- * @mapping - pointer to mapping
- */
-int nfs_revalidate_mapping_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping)
-{
-	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
-	int ret = 0;
-
-	if ((nfsi->cache_validity & NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE)
-			|| nfs_attribute_timeout(inode) || NFS_STALE(inode)) {
-		ret = __nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode);
-		if (ret < 0)
-			goto out;
-	}
-	if (nfsi->cache_validity & NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA)
-		ret = nfs_invalidate_mapping_nolock(inode, mapping);
-out:
-	return ret;
-}
-
 /**
  * nfs_revalidate_mapping - Revalidate the pagecache
  * @inode - pointer to host inode
  * @mapping - pointer to mapping
- *
- * This version of the function will take the inode->i_mutex and attempt to
- * flush out all dirty data if it needs to invalidate the page cache.
  */
 int nfs_revalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping)
 {
diff --git a/fs/nfs/symlink.c b/fs/nfs/symlink.c
index 412738dbfbc7e1024f90887e5e3cdd1a07a34563..2ea9e5c27e5521d10b82d893b316c43c85ccad57 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/symlink.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static void *nfs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 	struct page *page;
 	void *err;
 
-	err = ERR_PTR(nfs_revalidate_mapping_nolock(inode, inode->i_mapping));
+	err = ERR_PTR(nfs_revalidate_mapping(inode, inode->i_mapping));
 	if (err)
 		goto read_failed;
 	page = read_cache_page(&inode->i_data, 0,
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index b789d85bff829e3c5766f724a99b820611b7911f..1a0b85aa151e313e06912895c42a25a2b0c3c55d 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -347,7 +347,6 @@ extern int nfs_attribute_timeout(struct inode *inode);
 extern int nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode);
 extern int __nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *, struct inode *);
 extern int nfs_revalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping);
-extern int nfs_revalidate_mapping_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping);
 extern int nfs_setattr(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
 extern void nfs_setattr_update_inode(struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr);
 extern struct nfs_open_context *get_nfs_open_context(struct nfs_open_context *ctx);