diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index fac5509c18f0f74cadb2ccb783ea9e65868d711a..c1dbe0ba9f828b1115b68d73f2c582130ab180d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -763,7 +763,6 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
 	unsigned long node_spanned_pages; /* total size of physical page
 					     range, including holes */
 	int node_id;
-	nodemask_t reclaim_nodes;	/* Nodes allowed to reclaim from */
 	wait_queue_head_t kswapd_wait;
 	wait_queue_head_t pfmemalloc_wait;
 	struct task_struct *kswapd;	/* Protected by lock_memory_hotplug() */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index dfe954fbb48aeda3c6a2ec91bd1c18c158ec29da..9f13bcfb6762db9cb12eb543af19f0c209d767a7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1850,16 +1850,8 @@ static bool zone_local(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
 
 static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
 {
-	return node_isset(local_zone->node, zone->zone_pgdat->reclaim_nodes);
-}
-
-static void __paginginit init_zone_allows_reclaim(int nid)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	for_each_node_state(i, N_MEMORY)
-		if (node_distance(nid, i) <= RECLAIM_DISTANCE)
-			node_set(i, NODE_DATA(nid)->reclaim_nodes);
+	return node_distance(zone_to_nid(local_zone), zone_to_nid(zone)) <
+				RECLAIM_DISTANCE;
 }
 
 #else	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
@@ -1893,9 +1885,6 @@ static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
 	return true;
 }
 
-static inline void init_zone_allows_reclaim(int nid)
-{
-}
 #endif	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
 
 /*
@@ -4933,8 +4922,6 @@ void __paginginit free_area_init_node(int nid, unsigned long *zones_size,
 
 	pgdat->node_id = nid;
 	pgdat->node_start_pfn = node_start_pfn;
-	if (node_state(nid, N_MEMORY))
-		init_zone_allows_reclaim(nid);
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
 	get_pfn_range_for_nid(nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn);
 #endif