diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig
index 5d73041547a735feef05a69fce55926ab22cedff..eb5faeed4f66dfaab85e12ef3d16337a3a806ccf 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ config CAVIUM_OCTEON_LOCK_L2_MEMCPY
 config SWIOTLB
 	def_bool y
 	select DMA_DIRECT_OPS
-	select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
 
 config OCTEON_ILM
 	tristate "Module to measure interrupt latency using Octeon CIU Timer"
diff --git a/arch/mips/loongson64/Kconfig b/arch/mips/loongson64/Kconfig
index 641a1477031e3307a7e5fff601be0b11fe85fb5c..2a4fb91adbb66ef063bf8783499145baee8a960d 100644
--- a/arch/mips/loongson64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/loongson64/Kconfig
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ config SWIOTLB
 	default y
 	depends on CPU_LOONGSON3
 	select DMA_DIRECT_OPS
-	select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
 	select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE
 
 config PHYS48_TO_HT40
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/mm/Kconfig b/arch/unicore32/mm/Kconfig
index 1d9fed0ada71f08ae8b1961e287d422facc460df..45b7f769375e2476fca590640db09736fc39a1cc 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/unicore32/mm/Kconfig
@@ -43,4 +43,3 @@ config CPU_TLB_SINGLE_ENTRY_DISABLE
 config SWIOTLB
 	def_bool y
 	select DMA_DIRECT_OPS
-	select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH