diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
index 95fec596836262..4e3e9362afeb10 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
@@ -161,13 +161,11 @@ device must complete the update before the driver callback returns.
 When the device driver wants to populate a range of virtual addresses, it can
 use::
 
-  long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range, unsigned int flags);
+  long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range);
 
-With the HMM_RANGE_SNAPSHOT flag, it will only fetch present CPU page table
-entries and will not trigger a page fault on missing or non-present entries.
-Without that flag, it does trigger a page fault on missing or read-only entries
-if write access is requested (see below). Page faults use the generic mm page
-fault code path just like a CPU page fault.
+It will trigger a page fault on missing or read-only entries if write access is
+requested (see below). Page faults use the generic mm page fault code path just
+like a CPU page fault.
 
 Both functions copy CPU page table entries into their pfns array argument. Each
 entry in that array corresponds to an address in the virtual range. HMM
@@ -197,7 +195,7 @@ The usage pattern is::
  again:
       range.notifier_seq = mmu_interval_read_begin(&interval_sub);
       down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-      ret = hmm_range_fault(&range, HMM_RANGE_SNAPSHOT);
+      ret = hmm_range_fault(&range);
       if (ret) {
           up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
           if (ret == -EBUSY)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
index 90821ce5e6cad0..c520290709371b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ int amdgpu_ttm_tt_get_user_pages(struct amdgpu_bo *bo, struct page **pages)
 	range->notifier_seq = mmu_interval_read_begin(&bo->notifier);
 
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	r = hmm_range_fault(range, 0);
+	r = hmm_range_fault(range);
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	if (unlikely(r <= 0)) {
 		/*
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_svm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_svm.c
index 39c731a99937c6..e3797b2d4d1759 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_svm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_svm.c
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ static int nouveau_range_fault(struct nouveau_svmm *svmm,
 		range.default_flags = 0;
 		range.pfn_flags_mask = -1UL;
 		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-		ret = hmm_range_fault(&range, 0);
+		ret = hmm_range_fault(&range);
 		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		if (ret <= 0) {
 			if (ret == 0 || ret == -EBUSY)
diff --git a/include/linux/hmm.h b/include/linux/hmm.h
index daee6508a3f609..7475051100c782 100644
--- a/include/linux/hmm.h
+++ b/include/linux/hmm.h
@@ -117,13 +117,10 @@ static inline struct page *hmm_device_entry_to_page(const struct hmm_range *rang
 	return pfn_to_page(entry >> range->pfn_shift);
 }
 
-/* Don't fault in missing PTEs, just snapshot the current state. */
-#define HMM_FAULT_SNAPSHOT		(1 << 1)
-
 /*
  * Please see Documentation/vm/hmm.rst for how to use the range API.
  */
-long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range, unsigned int flags);
+long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range);
 
 /*
  * HMM_RANGE_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT - default timeout (ms) when waiting for a range
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 136de474221d77..8dbd9e1d0308b4 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 struct hmm_vma_walk {
 	struct hmm_range	*range;
 	unsigned long		last;
-	unsigned int		flags;
 };
 
 enum {
@@ -112,9 +111,6 @@ static unsigned int hmm_pte_need_fault(const struct hmm_vma_walk *hmm_vma_walk,
 {
 	struct hmm_range *range = hmm_vma_walk->range;
 
-	if (hmm_vma_walk->flags & HMM_FAULT_SNAPSHOT)
-		return 0;
-
 	/*
 	 * So we not only consider the individual per page request we also
 	 * consider the default flags requested for the range. The API can
@@ -147,10 +143,17 @@ hmm_range_need_fault(const struct hmm_vma_walk *hmm_vma_walk,
 		     const uint64_t *pfns, unsigned long npages,
 		     uint64_t cpu_flags)
 {
+	struct hmm_range *range = hmm_vma_walk->range;
 	unsigned int required_fault = 0;
 	unsigned long i;
 
-	if (hmm_vma_walk->flags & HMM_FAULT_SNAPSHOT)
+	/*
+	 * If the default flags do not request to fault pages, and the mask does
+	 * not allow for individual pages to be faulted, then
+	 * hmm_pte_need_fault() will always return 0.
+	 */
+	if (!((range->default_flags | range->pfn_flags_mask) &
+	      range->flags[HMM_PFN_VALID]))
 		return 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < npages; ++i) {
@@ -557,7 +560,6 @@ static const struct mm_walk_ops hmm_walk_ops = {
 /**
  * hmm_range_fault - try to fault some address in a virtual address range
  * @range:	argument structure
- * @flags:	HMM_FAULT_* flags
  *
  * Return: the number of valid pages in range->pfns[] (from range start
  * address), which may be zero.  On error one of the following status codes
@@ -579,12 +581,11 @@ static const struct mm_walk_ops hmm_walk_ops = {
  * On error, for one virtual address in the range, the function will mark the
  * corresponding HMM pfn entry with an error flag.
  */
-long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range, unsigned int flags)
+long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range)
 {
 	struct hmm_vma_walk hmm_vma_walk = {
 		.range = range,
 		.last = range->start,
-		.flags = flags,
 	};
 	struct mm_struct *mm = range->notifier->mm;
 	int ret;