diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index ad613ed66ab07b60e0f859eba21be6c6c4a1202e..33da7f538841cd604368b6ba1bf66672985b7ba5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1178,8 +1178,6 @@ void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk);
 #define VM_MAX_READAHEAD	128	/* kbytes */
 #define VM_MIN_READAHEAD	16	/* kbytes (includes current page) */
 
-int do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
-			pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read);
 int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 			pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read);
 
@@ -1197,6 +1195,9 @@ void page_cache_async_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 				unsigned long size);
 
 unsigned long max_sane_readahead(unsigned long nr);
+unsigned long ra_submit(struct file_ra_state *ra,
+			struct address_space *mapping,
+			struct file *filp);
 
 /* Do stack extension */
 extern int expand_stack(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address);
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 5c0c6518f3411a68cc2abb3881e73e42eaf473a8..734891d0663d7a64328ee2f81ae2dcd2e57f3dce 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1488,13 +1488,15 @@ static void do_sync_mmap_readahead(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (ra->mmap_miss > MMAP_LOTSAMISS)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * mmap read-around
+	 */
 	ra_pages = max_sane_readahead(ra->ra_pages);
 	if (ra_pages) {
-		pgoff_t start = 0;
-
-		if (offset > ra_pages / 2)
-			start = offset - ra_pages / 2;
-		do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file, start, ra_pages);
+		ra->start = max_t(long, 0, offset - ra_pages/2);
+		ra->size = ra_pages;
+		ra->async_size = 0;
+		ra_submit(ra, mapping, file);
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index d7c6e143a1297fc4866b18b28f04be2f9aaf2ecb..a7f01fcce9e7958e155fbd8aee2ef1a9b2c28783 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -133,15 +133,12 @@ static int read_pages(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 }
 
 /*
- * do_page_cache_readahead actually reads a chunk of disk.  It allocates all
+ * __do_page_cache_readahead() actually reads a chunk of disk.  It allocates all
  * the pages first, then submits them all for I/O. This avoids the very bad
  * behaviour which would occur if page allocations are causing VM writeback.
  * We really don't want to intermingle reads and writes like that.
  *
  * Returns the number of pages requested, or the maximum amount of I/O allowed.
- *
- * do_page_cache_readahead() returns -1 if it encountered request queue
- * congestion.
  */
 static int
 __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
@@ -231,22 +228,6 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/*
- * This version skips the IO if the queue is read-congested, and will tell the
- * block layer to abandon the readahead if request allocation would block.
- *
- * force_page_cache_readahead() will ignore queue congestion and will block on
- * request queues.
- */
-int do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
-			pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read)
-{
-	if (bdi_read_congested(mapping->backing_dev_info))
-		return -1;
-
-	return __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read, 0);
-}
-
 /*
  * Given a desired number of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE readahead pages, return a
  * sensible upper limit.
@@ -260,7 +241,7 @@ unsigned long max_sane_readahead(unsigned long nr)
 /*
  * Submit IO for the read-ahead request in file_ra_state.
  */
-static unsigned long ra_submit(struct file_ra_state *ra,
+unsigned long ra_submit(struct file_ra_state *ra,
 		       struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp)
 {
 	int actual;