diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 7acc9dc73c9f..e19ff30ad0a2 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 #define VM_PFNMAP	0x00000400	/* Page-ranges managed without "struct page", just pure PFN */
 #define VM_DENYWRITE	0x00000800	/* ETXTBSY on write attempts.. */
 
-#define VM_POPULATE     0x00001000
 #define VM_LOCKED	0x00002000
 #define VM_IO           0x00004000	/* Memory mapped I/O or similar */
 
diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
index 61c7a87e5d2b..9aa863da287f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mman.h
+++ b/include/linux/mman.h
@@ -79,8 +79,6 @@ calc_vm_flag_bits(unsigned long flags)
 {
 	return _calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_GROWSDOWN,  VM_GROWSDOWN ) |
 	       _calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_DENYWRITE,  VM_DENYWRITE ) |
-	       ((flags & MAP_LOCKED) ? (VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE) : 0) |
-	       (((flags & (MAP_POPULATE | MAP_NONBLOCK)) == MAP_POPULATE) ?
-							VM_POPULATE : 0);
+	       _calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_LOCKED,     VM_LOCKED    );
 }
 #endif /* _LINUX_MMAN_H */
diff --git a/mm/fremap.c b/mm/fremap.c
index 4723ac8d2fc2..87da3590c61e 100644
--- a/mm/fremap.c
+++ b/mm/fremap.c
@@ -204,10 +204,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(remap_file_pages, unsigned long, start, unsigned long, size,
 			unsigned long addr;
 			struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
 
-			vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
-			if (!(flags & MAP_NONBLOCK))
-				vm_flags |= VM_POPULATE;
-			addr = mmap_region(file, start, size, vm_flags, pgoff);
+			addr = mmap_region(file, start, size,
+					vma->vm_flags, pgoff);
 			fput(file);
 			if (IS_ERR_VALUE(addr)) {
 				err = addr;
@@ -226,12 +224,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(remap_file_pages, unsigned long, start, unsigned long, size,
 		mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
 	}
 
-	if (!(flags & MAP_NONBLOCK) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_POPULATE)) {
-		if (!has_write_lock)
-			goto get_write_lock;
-		vma->vm_flags |= VM_POPULATE;
-	}
-
 	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
 		/*
 		 * drop PG_Mlocked flag for over-mapped range
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 1c5e33fce639..79b7cf7d1bca 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static int do_mlock(unsigned long start, size_t len, int on)
 
 		newflags = vma->vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED;
 		if (on)
-			newflags |= VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE;
+			newflags |= VM_LOCKED;
 
 		tmp = vma->vm_end;
 		if (tmp > end)
@@ -418,8 +418,7 @@ int __mm_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long len, int ignore_errors)
 		 * range with the first VMA. Also, skip undesirable VMA types.
 		 */
 		nend = min(end, vma->vm_end);
-		if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_POPULATE)) !=
-		    VM_POPULATE)
+		if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))
 			continue;
 		if (nstart < vma->vm_start)
 			nstart = vma->vm_start;
@@ -492,9 +491,9 @@ static int do_mlockall(int flags)
 	struct vm_area_struct * vma, * prev = NULL;
 
 	if (flags & MCL_FUTURE)
-		current->mm->def_flags |= VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE;
+		current->mm->def_flags |= VM_LOCKED;
 	else
-		current->mm->def_flags &= ~(VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE);
+		current->mm->def_flags &= ~VM_LOCKED;
 	if (flags == MCL_FUTURE)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -503,7 +502,7 @@ static int do_mlockall(int flags)
 
 		newflags = vma->vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED;
 		if (flags & MCL_CURRENT)
-			newflags |= VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE;
+			newflags |= VM_LOCKED;
 
 		/* Ignore errors */
 		mlock_fixup(vma, &prev, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, newflags);
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 2664a47cec93..6466699b16cb 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1306,7 +1306,9 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 	}
 
 	addr = mmap_region(file, addr, len, vm_flags, pgoff);
-	if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(addr) && (vm_flags & VM_POPULATE))
+	if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(addr) &&
+	    ((vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) ||
+	     (flags & (MAP_POPULATE | MAP_NONBLOCK)) == MAP_POPULATE))
 		*populate = len;
 	return addr;
 }