diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 021b8a319b9e2cf7f0f60a5f6fedcfe3367f8016..5777c13849ba828aefe843b560beb5511d823fa1 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		      struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
 		      void *data);
 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc);
-void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite);
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page);
 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void);
 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
 			     pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 854e4027719f123a2738c6db914fb7dc0a610440..d0f0bef3be488af9eb9406cc5d28272093abb5a6 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2782,7 +2782,7 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		 */
 		if (!page_mkwrite) {
 			wait_on_page_locked(dirty_page);
-			set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page, page_mkwrite);
+			set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 			/* file_update_time outside page_lock */
 			if (vma->vm_file)
 				file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7106cb1aca8e3733059b344a773310aa4bf0fcd7..ef413492a14945c5e7ab0f5a8d33bd66eaf34873 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1562,9 +1562,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
 }
 
-void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
 {
-	if (set_page_dirty(page) || page_mkwrite) {
+	if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
 		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 
 		if (mapping)