diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index 7f085c97c799dac22dadaf9844ae31424e14816d..7a07b17d27c54aabd6a8eb0208432935cfafb3a8 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **);
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 #define PAGE_MIGRATION 1
 
-extern int putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l);
+extern void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l);
 extern int migrate_page(struct address_space *,
 			struct page *, struct page *);
 extern int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ extern int migrate_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm,
 #else
 #define PAGE_MIGRATION 0
 
-static inline int putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l) { return 0; }
+static inline void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l) {}
 static inline int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
 		unsigned long private, int offlining) { return -ENOSYS; }
 
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index d3f3f7f81075eb1eb2e7f5dbe2c0f292a489dacf..5938db54e1d75aa6ec6590cc44ef8bd967c473cd 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -58,23 +58,18 @@ int migrate_prep(void)
 /*
  * Add isolated pages on the list back to the LRU under page lock
  * to avoid leaking evictable pages back onto unevictable list.
- *
- * returns the number of pages put back.
  */
-int putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l)
+void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l)
 {
 	struct page *page;
 	struct page *page2;
-	int count = 0;
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(page, page2, l, lru) {
 		list_del(&page->lru);
 		dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
 				page_is_file_cache(page));
 		putback_lru_page(page);
-		count++;
 	}
-	return count;
 }
 
 /*