diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 937301fb9bc5..38c28817fbad 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -498,11 +498,9 @@ static void madvise_cold_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 		.tlb = tlb,
 	};
 
-	vm_write_begin(vma);
 	tlb_start_vma(tlb, vma);
 	walk_page_range(vma->vm_mm, addr, end, &cold_walk_ops, &walk_private);
 	tlb_end_vma(tlb, vma);
-	vm_write_end(vma);
 }
 
 static long madvise_cold(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
@@ -533,11 +531,9 @@ static void madvise_pageout_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 		.tlb = tlb,
 	};
 
-	vm_write_begin(vma);
 	tlb_start_vma(tlb, vma);
 	walk_page_range(vma->vm_mm, addr, end, &cold_walk_ops, &walk_private);
 	tlb_end_vma(tlb, vma);
-	vm_write_end(vma);
 }
 
 static inline bool can_do_pageout(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
@@ -740,12 +736,10 @@ static int madvise_free_single_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	update_hiwater_rss(mm);
 
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
-	vm_write_begin(vma);
 	tlb_start_vma(&tlb, vma);
 	walk_page_range(vma->vm_mm, range.start, range.end,
 			&madvise_free_walk_ops, &tlb);
 	tlb_end_vma(&tlb, vma);
-	vm_write_end(vma);
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
 	tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, range.start, range.end);
 
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 968ac6a2962a..0a8727bfff9e 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1462,7 +1462,6 @@ void unmap_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 	unsigned long next;
 
 	BUG_ON(addr >= end);
-	vm_write_begin(vma);
 	tlb_start_vma(tlb, vma);
 	pgd = pgd_offset(vma->vm_mm, addr);
 	do {
@@ -1472,7 +1471,6 @@ void unmap_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 		next = zap_p4d_range(tlb, vma, pgd, addr, next, details);
 	} while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
 	tlb_end_vma(tlb, vma);
-	vm_write_end(vma);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 3b2584088d28..f91327ebd167 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -657,11 +657,9 @@ unsigned long change_prot_numa(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 {
 	int nr_updated;
 
-	vm_write_begin(vma);
 	nr_updated = change_protection(vma, addr, end, PAGE_NONE, MM_CP_PROT_NUMA);
 	if (nr_updated)
 		count_vm_numa_events(NUMA_PTE_UPDATES, nr_updated);
-	vm_write_end(vma);
 
 	return nr_updated;
 }