diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 83a931c972f5..831212722924 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -324,9 +324,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
 config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
 	def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "119")
 
-config PAHOLE_HAS_ZEROSIZE_PERCPU_SUPPORT
-	def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "122")
-
 config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES
 	def_bool y
 	depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d6e94cc8066c..3b97e17806be 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -124,17 +124,6 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcp_batch_high_lock);
 
 struct pagesets {
 	local_lock_t lock;
-#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF) &&				\
-	!defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC) &&			\
-	!defined(CONFIG_PAHOLE_HAS_ZEROSIZE_PERCPU_SUPPORT)
-	/*
-	 * pahole 1.21 and earlier gets confused by zero-sized per-CPU
-	 * variables and produces invalid BTF. Ensure that
-	 * sizeof(struct pagesets) != 0 for older versions of pahole.
-	 */
-	char __pahole_hack;
-	#warning "pahole too old to support zero-sized struct pagesets"
-#endif
 };
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pagesets, pagesets) = {
 	.lock = INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(lock),