diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index f64134653a8c..d63ef8f9609f 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -56,15 +56,6 @@ struct writeback_control {
 	unsigned for_reclaim:1;		/* Invoked from the page allocator */
 	unsigned range_cyclic:1;	/* range_start is cyclic */
 	unsigned more_io:1;		/* more io to be dispatched */
-	/*
-	 * write_cache_pages() won't update wbc->nr_to_write and
-	 * mapping->writeback_index if no_nrwrite_index_update
-	 * is set.  write_cache_pages() may write more than we
-	 * requested and we want to make sure nr_to_write and
-	 * writeback_index are updated in a consistent manner
-	 * so we use a single control to update them
-	 */
-	unsigned no_nrwrite_index_update:1;
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/trace/events/ext4.h b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
index f5b1ba90e952..f3865c7b4166 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/ext4.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
@@ -306,7 +306,6 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages_result,
 		__field(	int,	pages_written		)
 		__field(	long,	pages_skipped		)
 		__field(	char,	more_io			)	
-		__field(	char,	no_nrwrite_index_update )
 		__field(       pgoff_t,	writeback_index		)
 	),
 
@@ -317,16 +316,14 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages_result,
 		__entry->pages_written	= pages_written;
 		__entry->pages_skipped	= wbc->pages_skipped;
 		__entry->more_io	= wbc->more_io;
-		__entry->no_nrwrite_index_update = wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update;
 		__entry->writeback_index = inode->i_mapping->writeback_index;
 	),
 
-	TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu ret %d pages_written %d pages_skipped %ld more_io %d no_nrwrite_index_update %d writeback_index %lu",
+	TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu ret %d pages_written %d pages_skipped %ld more_io %d writeback_index %lu",
 		  jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev),
 		  (unsigned long) __entry->ino, __entry->ret,
 		  __entry->pages_written, __entry->pages_skipped,
 		  __entry->more_io,
-		  __entry->no_nrwrite_index_update,
 		  (unsigned long) __entry->writeback_index)
 );
 
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 5fa63bdf52e4..b3dbb8040ed5 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -835,7 +835,6 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 	pgoff_t done_index;
 	int cycled;
 	int range_whole = 0;
-	long nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write;
 
 	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
 	if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
@@ -935,11 +934,10 @@ continue_unlock:
 					done = 1;
 					break;
 				}
- 			}
+			}
 
-			if (nr_to_write > 0) {
-				nr_to_write--;
-				if (nr_to_write == 0 &&
+			if (wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {
+				if (--wbc->nr_to_write == 0 &&
 				    wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
 					/*
 					 * We stop writing back only if we are
@@ -970,11 +968,8 @@ continue_unlock:
 		end = writeback_index - 1;
 		goto retry;
 	}
-	if (!wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update) {
-		if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && nr_to_write > 0))
-			mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
-		wbc->nr_to_write = nr_to_write;
-	}
+	if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
+		mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
 
 	return ret;
 }