diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ef0ea4bf1c5cf109acb98dc686ee8b20c0fbfaab..2212743fd50ed3f8009e9faae1ab14912dc03331 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ struct scan_control {
 	/* Can pages be swapped as part of reclaim? */
 	unsigned int may_swap:1;
 
-	/* e.g. boosted watermark reclaim leaves slabs alone */
-	unsigned int may_shrinkslab:1;
-
 	/*
 	 * Cgroups are not reclaimed below their configured memory.low,
 	 * unless we threaten to OOM. If any cgroups are skipped due to
@@ -2880,10 +2877,8 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
 			shrink_node_memcg(pgdat, memcg, sc, &lru_pages);
 			node_lru_pages += lru_pages;
 
-			if (sc->may_shrinkslab) {
-				shrink_slab(sc->gfp_mask, pgdat->node_id,
-				    memcg, sc->priority);
-			}
+			shrink_slab(sc->gfp_mask, pgdat->node_id, memcg,
+					sc->priority);
 
 			/* Record the group's reclaim efficiency */
 			vmpressure(sc->gfp_mask, memcg, false,
@@ -3387,7 +3382,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
 		.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
 		.may_swap = 1,
-		.may_shrinkslab = 1,
 	};
 
 	/*
@@ -3432,7 +3426,6 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
 		.reclaim_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1,
 		.may_swap = !noswap,
-		.may_shrinkslab = 1,
 	};
 	unsigned long lru_pages;
 
@@ -3479,7 +3472,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
 		.may_swap = may_swap,
-		.may_shrinkslab = 1,
 	};
 
 	/*
@@ -3791,7 +3783,6 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
 		 */
 		sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode && !nr_boost_reclaim;
 		sc.may_swap = !nr_boost_reclaim;
-		sc.may_shrinkslab = !nr_boost_reclaim;
 
 		/*
 		 * Do some background aging of the anon list, to give