diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c b/arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c
index 0f4957ac81b6a2e6f2f925f0acafec984a628ef5..5bfb1ce129f4b81994bc78e5a2188365d8cf7409 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c
@@ -1261,12 +1261,6 @@ static void hw_perf_event_update(struct perf_event *event, int flush_all)
 		 */
 		if (flush_all && done)
 			break;
-
-		/* If an event overflow happened, discard samples by
-		 * processing any remaining sample-data-blocks.
-		 */
-		if (event_overflow)
-			flush_all = 1;
 	}
 
 	/* Account sample overflows in the event hardware structure */