diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index 112c9a2ae47b534ffd09870d25c05ffd3ee114d6..c5ef2907895455d0725d2131fa578474032a1c6e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -67,12 +67,6 @@ struct btrfs_ref;
 
 #define BTRFS_OLDEST_GENERATION	0ULL
 
-/*
- * the max metadata block size.  This limit is somewhat artificial,
- * but the memmove costs go through the roof for larger blocks.
- */
-#define BTRFS_MAX_METADATA_BLOCKSIZE 65536
-
 /*
  * we can actually store much bigger names, but lets not confuse the rest
  * of linux
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index e70d6944d0755baaafdaa4417c43f036a39c7f79..86b2a483c1ab8b62edf6589d15902afba3e8b97c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -5053,12 +5053,7 @@ __alloc_extent_buffer(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 start,
 	atomic_set(&eb->refs, 1);
 	atomic_set(&eb->io_pages, 0);
 
-	/*
-	 * Sanity checks, currently the maximum is 64k covered by 16x 4k pages
-	 */
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(BTRFS_MAX_METADATA_BLOCKSIZE
-		> MAX_INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_SIZE);
-	BUG_ON(len > MAX_INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_SIZE);
+	ASSERT(len <= BTRFS_MAX_METADATA_BLOCKSIZE);
 
 	return eb;
 }
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.h b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
index 16f2ce5cd8ed8bbb9fed2655ef95a025c04e580b..77f2211550e3b7136768c739795a8cf021e700dc 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/rbtree.h>
 #include <linux/refcount.h>
 #include <linux/fiemap.h>
+#include <linux/btrfs_tree.h>
 #include "ulist.h"
 
 /*
@@ -74,8 +75,7 @@ typedef blk_status_t (submit_bio_hook_t)(struct inode *inode, struct bio *bio,
 typedef blk_status_t (extent_submit_bio_start_t)(struct inode *inode,
 		struct bio *bio, u64 dio_file_offset);
 
-#define INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_PAGES 16
-#define MAX_INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_SIZE (INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE)
+#define INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_PAGES     (BTRFS_MAX_METADATA_BLOCKSIZE / PAGE_SIZE)
 struct extent_buffer {
 	u64 start;
 	unsigned long len;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h b/include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h
index 6b885982ece68775a97941b5b495d5b551609d2e..58d7cff9afb17f8d79ed2b7f927a0fac4d996ddc 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h
@@ -299,7 +299,8 @@
  */
 #define BTRFS_STRING_ITEM_KEY	253
 
-
+/* Maximum metadata block size (nodesize) */
+#define BTRFS_MAX_METADATA_BLOCKSIZE			65536
 
 /* 32 bytes in various csum fields */
 #define BTRFS_CSUM_SIZE 32