diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index cd2bc939efd0..5ed8f6292a53 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ struct mm_struct {
 	struct {
 		struct vm_area_struct *mmap;		/* list of VMAs */
 		struct rb_root mm_rb;
-		u32 vmacache_seqnum;                   /* per-thread vmacache */
+		u64 vmacache_seqnum;                   /* per-thread vmacache */
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 		unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area) (struct file *filp,
 				unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types_task.h b/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
index 5fe87687664c..d7016dcb245e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #define VMACACHE_MASK (VMACACHE_SIZE - 1)
 
 struct vmacache {
-	u32 seqnum;
+	u64 seqnum;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vmas[VMACACHE_SIZE];
 };
 
diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
index 5c7f010676a7..47a3441cf4c4 100644
--- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
+++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
 		VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS,
 		VMACACHE_FIND_HITS,
-		VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES,
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
 		SWAP_RA,
diff --git a/include/linux/vmacache.h b/include/linux/vmacache.h
index 3e9a963edd6a..6fce268a4588 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmacache.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmacache.h
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ static inline void vmacache_flush(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	memset(tsk->vmacache.vmas, 0, sizeof(tsk->vmacache.vmas));
 }
 
-extern void vmacache_flush_all(struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern void vmacache_update(unsigned long addr, struct vm_area_struct *newvma);
 extern struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find(struct mm_struct *mm,
 						    unsigned long addr);
@@ -24,10 +23,6 @@ extern struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find_exact(struct mm_struct *mm,
 static inline void vmacache_invalidate(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	mm->vmacache_seqnum++;
-
-	/* deal with overflows */
-	if (unlikely(mm->vmacache_seqnum == 0))
-		vmacache_flush_all(mm);
 }
 
 #endif /* __LINUX_VMACACHE_H */
diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
index 38c926520c97..bd10aad8539a 100644
--- a/mm/debug.c
+++ b/mm/debug.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_vma);
 
 void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-	pr_emerg("mm %px mmap %px seqnum %d task_size %lu\n"
+	pr_emerg("mm %px mmap %px seqnum %llu task_size %lu\n"
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 		"get_unmapped_area %px\n"
 #endif
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
 		"tlb_flush_pending %d\n"
 		"def_flags: %#lx(%pGv)\n",
 
-		mm, mm->mmap, mm->vmacache_seqnum, mm->task_size,
+		mm, mm->mmap, (long long) mm->vmacache_seqnum, mm->task_size,
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 		mm->get_unmapped_area,
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/vmacache.c b/mm/vmacache.c
index ea517bef7dc5..cdc32a3b02fa 100644
--- a/mm/vmacache.c
+++ b/mm/vmacache.c
@@ -19,44 +19,6 @@
 #endif
 #define VMACACHE_HASH(addr) ((addr >> VMACACHE_SHIFT) & VMACACHE_MASK)
 
-/*
- * Flush vma caches for threads that share a given mm.
- *
- * The operation is safe because the caller holds the mmap_sem
- * exclusively and other threads accessing the vma cache will
- * have mmap_sem held at least for read, so no extra locking
- * is required to maintain the vma cache.
- */
-void vmacache_flush_all(struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
-	struct task_struct *g, *p;
-
-	count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES);
-
-	/*
-	 * Single threaded tasks need not iterate the entire
-	 * list of process. We can avoid the flushing as well
-	 * since the mm's seqnum was increased and don't have
-	 * to worry about other threads' seqnum. Current's
-	 * flush will occur upon the next lookup.
-	 */
-	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1)
-		return;
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	for_each_process_thread(g, p) {
-		/*
-		 * Only flush the vmacache pointers as the
-		 * mm seqnum is already set and curr's will
-		 * be set upon invalidation when the next
-		 * lookup is done.
-		 */
-		if (mm == p->mm)
-			vmacache_flush(p);
-	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-}
-
 /*
  * This task may be accessing a foreign mm via (for example)
  * get_user_pages()->find_vma().  The vmacache is task-local and this