diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index edd11859456557066747c7f1055707c2fcf7ec4f..edec8652788c2ef2873ae6faf28868c50e0b277b 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1421,9 +1421,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__find_get_block);
  * @size: The size of buffer_heads for this @bdev.
  * @gfp: The memory allocation flags to use.
  *
- * In contrast to __getblk_gfp(), the @gfp flags must be all of the flags;
- * they are not augmented with the mapping's GFP flags.
- *
  * Return: The buffer head, or NULL if memory could not be allocated.
  */
 struct buffer_head *bdev_getblk(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
@@ -1439,27 +1436,6 @@ struct buffer_head *bdev_getblk(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdev_getblk);
 
-/*
- * __getblk_gfp() will locate (and, if necessary, create) the buffer_head
- * which corresponds to the passed block_device, block and size. The
- * returned buffer has its reference count incremented.
- */
-struct buffer_head *
-__getblk_gfp(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
-	     unsigned size, gfp_t gfp)
-{
-	gfp |= mapping_gfp_constraint(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping, ~__GFP_FS);
-
-	/*
-	 * Prefer looping in the allocator rather than here, at least that
-	 * code knows what it's doing.
-	 */
-	gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
-
-	return bdev_getblk(bdev, block, size, gfp);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__getblk_gfp);
-
 /*
  * Do async read-ahead on a buffer..
  */
@@ -1491,7 +1467,17 @@ struct buffer_head *
 __bread_gfp(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 		   unsigned size, gfp_t gfp)
 {
-	struct buffer_head *bh = __getblk_gfp(bdev, block, size, gfp);
+	struct buffer_head *bh;
+
+	gfp |= mapping_gfp_constraint(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping, ~__GFP_FS);
+
+	/*
+	 * Prefer looping in the allocator rather than here, at least that
+	 * code knows what it's doing.
+	 */
+	gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
+
+	bh = bdev_getblk(bdev, block, size, gfp);
 
 	if (likely(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh))
 		bh = __bread_slow(bh);
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 22f13eece71978e47ec5d0b86b63d913f530ee68..3dc4720e4773bdc898ee55621dfadc42716bae7e 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -229,8 +229,6 @@ struct buffer_head *__find_get_block(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 			unsigned size);
 struct buffer_head *bdev_getblk(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 		unsigned size, gfp_t gfp);
-struct buffer_head *__getblk_gfp(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
-				  unsigned size, gfp_t gfp);
 void __brelse(struct buffer_head *);
 void __bforget(struct buffer_head *);
 void __breadahead(struct block_device *, sector_t block, unsigned int size);