diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 01630218c75f6c83132bc441ada99f34d04b9445..02b50e3e4fbb78aba647cebfbec0453bd5151831 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2568,8 +2568,7 @@ static void attach_nobh_buffers(struct page *page, struct buffer_head *head)
  * On exit the page is fully uptodate in the areas outside (from,to)
  * The filesystem needs to handle block truncation upon failure.
  */
-int nobh_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
-			loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
+int nobh_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t pos, unsigned len,
 			struct page **pagep, void **fsdata,
 			get_block_t *get_block)
 {
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 97192932ea56b4648638a7db0d8e251f7641b9e0..bfa69c52ce2c8dd97b05a547b0ac7348e08a31d6 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ ext2_nobh_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = nobh_write_begin(mapping, pos, len, flags, pagep, fsdata,
+	ret = nobh_write_begin(mapping, pos, len, pagep, fsdata,
 			       ext2_get_block);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		ext2_write_failed(mapping, pos + len);
diff --git a/fs/jfs/inode.c b/fs/jfs/inode.c
index d1943a7b4b04078014aeea1534c1ae13c7b85fac..e16f77b4e84cb11ee5c091ea30d6d570a8b74637 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/inode.c
@@ -319,8 +319,7 @@ static int jfs_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = nobh_write_begin(mapping, pos, len, flags, pagep, fsdata,
-				jfs_get_block);
+	ret = nobh_write_begin(mapping, pos, len, pagep, fsdata, jfs_get_block);
 	if (unlikely(ret))
 		jfs_write_failed(mapping, pos + len);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 127b60fad77e87269ab3d5ae9c2eb33382b6e151..6e5a64005fefafabba1078014be07d64373c7366 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static inline vm_fault_t block_page_mkwrite_return(int err)
 }
 sector_t generic_block_bmap(struct address_space *, sector_t, get_block_t *);
 int block_truncate_page(struct address_space *, loff_t, get_block_t *);
-int nobh_write_begin(struct address_space *, loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+int nobh_write_begin(struct address_space *, loff_t, unsigned len,
 				struct page **, void **, get_block_t*);
 int nobh_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *,
 				loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,