diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index d2c50ab6ae40..04e0969966f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ enum node_stat_item {
 	NR_UNEVICTABLE,		/*  "     "     "   "       "         */
 	NR_ISOLATED_ANON,	/* Temporary isolated pages from anon lru */
 	NR_ISOLATED_FILE,	/* Temporary isolated pages from file lru */
-	NR_PAGES_SCANNED,	/* pages scanned since last reclaim */
 	WORKINGSET_REFAULT,
 	WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE,
 	WORKINGSET_NODERECLAIM,
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index e5a0e0ec2177..a36719572eb9 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ extern unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn;
  */
 extern int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page);
 extern void putback_lru_page(struct page *page);
-extern bool pgdat_reclaimable(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
 
 /*
  * in mm/rmap.c:
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 42c0543e46c3..6994f28f769c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1090,14 +1090,10 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
 {
 	int migratetype = 0;
 	int batch_free = 0;
-	unsigned long nr_scanned;
 	bool isolated_pageblocks;
 
 	spin_lock(&zone->lock);
 	isolated_pageblocks = has_isolate_pageblock(zone);
-	nr_scanned = node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED);
-	if (nr_scanned)
-		__mod_node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, -nr_scanned);
 
 	while (count) {
 		struct page *page;
@@ -1150,12 +1146,7 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
 				unsigned int order,
 				int migratetype)
 {
-	unsigned long nr_scanned;
 	spin_lock(&zone->lock);
-	nr_scanned = node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED);
-	if (nr_scanned)
-		__mod_node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, -nr_scanned);
-
 	if (unlikely(has_isolate_pageblock(zone) ||
 		is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
 		migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
@@ -4504,7 +4495,6 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter, nodemask_t *nodemask)
 #endif
 			" writeback_tmp:%lukB"
 			" unstable:%lukB"
-			" pages_scanned:%lu"
 			" all_unreclaimable? %s"
 			"\n",
 			pgdat->node_id,
@@ -4527,7 +4517,6 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter, nodemask_t *nodemask)
 #endif
 			K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP)),
 			K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS)),
-			node_page_state(pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED),
 			pgdat->kswapd_failures >= MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES ?
 				"yes" : "no");
 	}
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 9117ae8d49ee..02f2eb51b33e 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -230,12 +230,6 @@ unsigned long pgdat_reclaimable_pages(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 	return nr;
 }
 
-bool pgdat_reclaimable(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
-{
-	return node_page_state_snapshot(pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED) <
-		pgdat_reclaimable_pages(pgdat) * 6;
-}
-
 /**
  * lruvec_lru_size -  Returns the number of pages on the given LRU list.
  * @lruvec: lru vector
@@ -1750,7 +1744,6 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
 	reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken;
 
 	if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
-		__mod_node_page_state(pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, nr_scanned);
 		if (current_is_kswapd())
 			__count_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, nr_scanned);
 		else
@@ -1953,8 +1946,6 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
 	__mod_node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, nr_taken);
 	reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken;
 
-	if (global_reclaim(sc))
-		__mod_node_page_state(pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, nr_scanned);
 	__count_vm_events(PGREFILL, nr_scanned);
 
 	spin_unlock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index baee70dafba8..c8d15051616b 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -954,7 +954,6 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 	"nr_unevictable",
 	"nr_isolated_anon",
 	"nr_isolated_file",
-	"nr_pages_scanned",
 	"workingset_refault",
 	"workingset_activate",
 	"workingset_nodereclaim",
@@ -1378,7 +1377,6 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat,
 		   "\n        min      %lu"
 		   "\n        low      %lu"
 		   "\n        high     %lu"
-		   "\n   node_scanned  %lu"
 		   "\n        spanned  %lu"
 		   "\n        present  %lu"
 		   "\n        managed  %lu",
@@ -1386,7 +1384,6 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat,
 		   min_wmark_pages(zone),
 		   low_wmark_pages(zone),
 		   high_wmark_pages(zone),
-		   node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED),
 		   zone->spanned_pages,
 		   zone->present_pages,
 		   zone->managed_pages);
@@ -1586,22 +1583,9 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) {
 		val = atomic_long_read(&vm_zone_stat[i]);
 		if (val < 0) {
-			switch (i) {
-			case NR_PAGES_SCANNED:
-				/*
-				 * This is often seen to go negative in
-				 * recent kernels, but not to go permanently
-				 * negative.  Whilst it would be nicer not to
-				 * have exceptions, rooting them out would be
-				 * another task, of rather low priority.
-				 */
-				break;
-			default:
-				pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n",
-					__func__, vmstat_text[i], val);
-				err = -EINVAL;
-				break;
-			}
+			pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n",
+				__func__, vmstat_text[i], val);
+			err = -EINVAL;
 		}
 	}
 	if (err)