diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index eb16e94ae04f79927eb2c5afbf7b6ecd849b1621..021979a6e23fe7074c6b0b44e09910682d0fcf0c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ static inline void winchip_mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) {}
 static inline void enable_p5_mce(void) {}
 #endif
 
-extern void (*x86_mce_decode_callback)(struct mce *m);
-
 void mce_setup(struct mce *m);
 void mce_log(struct mce *m);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sys_device, mce_dev);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 68e230327d65490ae6c57e3713438c0015d12cfb..ff1ae9b6464d80d4663b8bc09124edbe6992ea7f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -105,20 +105,6 @@ static int			cpu_missing;
 ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(x86_mce_decoder_chain);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_mce_decoder_chain);
 
-static int default_decode_mce(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
-			       void *data)
-{
-	pr_emerg(HW_ERR "No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.\n");
-	pr_emerg(HW_ERR "Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.\n");
-
-	return NOTIFY_STOP;
-}
-
-static struct notifier_block mce_dec_nb = {
-	.notifier_call = default_decode_mce,
-	.priority      = -1,
-};
-
 /* MCA banks polled by the period polling timer for corrected events */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(mce_banks_t, mce_poll_banks) = {
 	[0 ... BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NR_BANKS)-1] = ~0UL
@@ -212,6 +198,8 @@ void mce_log(struct mce *mce)
 
 static void print_mce(struct mce *m)
 {
+	int ret = 0;
+
 	pr_emerg(HW_ERR "CPU %d: Machine Check Exception: %Lx Bank %d: %016Lx\n",
 	       m->extcpu, m->mcgstatus, m->bank, m->status);
 
@@ -239,7 +227,11 @@ static void print_mce(struct mce *m)
 	 * Print out human-readable details about the MCE error,
 	 * (if the CPU has an implementation for that)
 	 */
-	atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
+	ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
+	if (ret == NOTIFY_STOP)
+		return;
+
+	pr_emerg_ratelimited(HW_ERR "Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii'\n");
 }
 
 #define PANIC_TIMEOUT 5 /* 5 seconds */
@@ -1721,8 +1713,6 @@ __setup("mce", mcheck_enable);
 
 int __init mcheck_init(void)
 {
-	atomic_notifier_chain_register(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, &mce_dec_nb);
-
 	mcheck_intel_therm_init();
 
 	return 0;