diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu.h
index 3b72c7ed24cf..aa5c0fd5edb1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu.h
@@ -406,9 +406,5 @@ extern void *abatron_pteptrs[2];
 #include <asm/nohash/mmu.h>
 #endif
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_FA_DUMP) || defined(CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP)
-#define __HAVE_ARCH_RESERVED_KERNEL_PAGES
-#endif
-
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_MMU_H_ */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index d14eda1e8589..ae8c7619e597 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -1735,8 +1735,3 @@ static void __init fadump_reserve_crash_area(u64 base)
 		memblock_reserve(mstart, msize);
 	}
 }
-
-unsigned long __init arch_reserved_kernel_pages(void)
-{
-	return memblock_reserved_size() / PAGE_SIZE;
-}
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 22ae6ab621da..dd47ba7a1c04 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3261,9 +3261,6 @@ static inline void show_mem(void)
 extern long si_mem_available(void);
 extern void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo * val);
 extern void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid);
-#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_RESERVED_KERNEL_PAGES
-extern unsigned long arch_reserved_kernel_pages(void);
-#endif
 
 extern __printf(3, 4)
 void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, const char *fmt, ...);
diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index 8c261572ca6e..0d32bcc301e2 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -2374,17 +2374,6 @@ void __init page_alloc_init_late(void)
 	page_alloc_sysctl_init();
 }
 
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_RESERVED_KERNEL_PAGES
-/*
- * Returns the number of pages that arch has reserved but
- * is not known to alloc_large_system_hash().
- */
-static unsigned long __init arch_reserved_kernel_pages(void)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
 /*
  * Adaptive scale is meant to reduce sizes of hash tables on large memory
  * machines. As memory size is increased the scale is also increased but at
@@ -2427,7 +2416,6 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename,
 	if (!numentries) {
 		/* round applicable memory size up to nearest megabyte */
 		numentries = nr_kernel_pages;
-		numentries -= arch_reserved_kernel_pages();
 
 		/* It isn't necessary when PAGE_SIZE >= 1MB */
 		if (PAGE_SIZE < SZ_1M)