diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build
index bd518b623d7a203e576653705866f910409fa144..5bd7b9260cc0858c36730ee367aecc56df6c91bb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 libperf-y += header.o
-libperf-y += sym-handling.o
 libperf-y += kvm-stat.o
 
 libperf-$(CONFIG_DWARF) += dwarf-regs.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/sym-handling.c b/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/sym-handling.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 581d4c5a896b8f23c0c56310d0acf57a50a29c18..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/sym-handling.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Architecture specific ELF symbol handling and relocation mapping.
- *
- * Copyright 2017 IBM Corp.
- * Author(s): Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 only)
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
- */
-
-#include "symbol.h"
-
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
-bool elf__needs_adjust_symbols(GElf_Ehdr ehdr)
-{
-	if (ehdr.e_type == ET_EXEC)
-		return false;
-	return ehdr.e_type == ET_REL || ehdr.e_type == ET_DYN;
-}
-#endif