diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
index 647bf454a0fa5b4c8e6057fb0f03b9fab92d9e8c..311281063d48f70b79cdcfb93006831f6a64bf0a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ static inline int mmu_get_tsize(int psize)
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 
-int mmu_linear_psize;		/* Page size used for the linear mapping */
 int mmu_pte_psize;		/* Page size used for PTE pages */
 int mmu_vmemmap_psize;		/* Page size used for the virtual mem map */
 int book3e_htw_mode;		/* HW tablewalk?  Value is PPC_HTW_* */
@@ -657,14 +656,6 @@ static void early_init_this_mmu(void)
 
 static void __init early_init_mmu_global(void)
 {
-	/* XXX This will have to be decided at runtime, but right
-	 * now our boot and TLB miss code hard wires it. Ideally
-	 * we should find out a suitable page size and patch the
-	 * TLB miss code (either that or use the PACA to store
-	 * the value we want)
-	 */
-	mmu_linear_psize = MMU_PAGE_1G;
-
 	/* XXX This should be decided at runtime based on supported
 	 * page sizes in the TLB, but for now let's assume 16M is
 	 * always there and a good fit (which it probably is)