diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index ce3580e2f4f4..c35bb8593f50 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ atomic_long_t nr_swap_pages;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nr_swap_pages);
 /* protected with swap_lock. reading in vm_swap_full() doesn't need lock */
 long total_swap_pages;
-static int least_priority;
+#define DEF_SWAP_PRIO  -1
 unsigned long swapfile_maximum_size;
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 bool swap_migration_ad_supported;
@@ -2707,10 +2707,7 @@ static void setup_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *si, int prio,
 			    struct swap_cluster_info *cluster_info,
 			    unsigned long *zeromap)
 {
-	if (prio >= 0)
-		si->prio = prio;
-	else
-		si->prio = --least_priority;
+	si->prio = prio;
 	/*
 	 * the plist prio is negated because plist ordering is
 	 * low-to-high, while swap ordering is high-to-low
@@ -2728,16 +2725,7 @@ static void _enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *si)
 	total_swap_pages += si->pages;
 
 	assert_spin_locked(&swap_lock);
-	/*
-	 * both lists are plists, and thus priority ordered.
-	 * swap_active_head needs to be priority ordered for swapoff(),
-	 * which on removal of any swap_info_struct with an auto-assigned
-	 * (i.e. negative) priority increments the auto-assigned priority
-	 * of any lower-priority swap_info_structs.
-	 * swap_avail_head needs to be priority ordered for folio_alloc_swap(),
-	 * which allocates swap pages from the highest available priority
-	 * swap_info_struct.
-	 */
+
 	plist_add(&si->list, &swap_active_head);
 
 	/* Add back to available list */
@@ -2887,16 +2875,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 	}
 	spin_lock(&p->lock);
 	del_from_avail_list(p, true);
-	if (p->prio < 0) {
-		struct swap_info_struct *si = p;
-
-		plist_for_each_entry_continue(si, &swap_active_head, list) {
-			si->prio++;
-			si->list.prio--;
-			si->avail_list.prio--;
-		}
-		least_priority++;
-	}
 	plist_del(&p->list, &swap_active_head);
 	atomic_long_sub(p->pages, &nr_swap_pages);
 	total_swap_pages -= p->pages;
@@ -3607,7 +3585,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
-	prio = -1;
+	prio = DEF_SWAP_PRIO;
 	if (swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_PREFER)
 		prio = swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_MASK;
 	enable_swap_info(si, prio, swap_map, cluster_info, zeromap);