diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index b8eef2181598..f361bd6c814c 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -221,8 +221,6 @@ static __always_inline bool compound_info_has_mask(void)
 	return is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page));
 }
 
-DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
-
 static __always_inline unsigned long _compound_head(const struct page *page)
 {
 	unsigned long info = READ_ONCE(page->compound_info);
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index fd1d5d5d12b4..4a077d231d3a 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -385,9 +385,6 @@ static int vmemmap_remap_alloc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 	return vmemmap_remap_range(start, end, &walk);
 }
 
-DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
-
 static bool vmemmap_optimize_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON);
 static int __init hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_param(char *buf)
 {
@@ -419,10 +416,8 @@ static int __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(const struct hstate *h,
 	 * discarded vmemmap pages must be allocated and remapping.
 	 */
 	ret = vmemmap_remap_alloc(vmemmap_start, vmemmap_end, flags);
-	if (!ret) {
+	if (!ret)
 		folio_clear_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio);
-		static_branch_dec(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
-	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -544,8 +539,6 @@ static int __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(const struct hstate *h,
 	if (!vmemmap_tail)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	static_branch_inc(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
-
 	/*
 	 * Very Subtle
 	 * If VMEMMAP_REMAP_NO_TLB_FLUSH is set, TLB flushing is not performed
@@ -581,10 +574,8 @@ static int __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(const struct hstate *h,
 				 vmemmap_head, vmemmap_tail,
 				 vmemmap_pages, flags);
 out:
-	if (ret) {
-		static_branch_dec(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
+	if (ret)
 		folio_clear_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio);
-	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -650,7 +641,6 @@ static void __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(struct hstate *h,
 			register_page_bootmem_memmap(pfn_to_section_nr(spfn),
 					&folio->page,
 					HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE);
-			static_branch_inc(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
 			continue;
 		}