diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 1d6ba6a4b594e7db82617c67449831482f52412d..42bccfb8464d1421d721e3a108c439ccd36b1983 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1861,7 +1861,6 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
 		unsigned long *zones_size, unsigned long *zholes_size)
 {
 	unsigned long i, j;
-	const unsigned long zone_required_alignment = 1UL << (MAX_ORDER-1);
 	int cpu, nid = pgdat->node_id;
 	unsigned long zone_start_pfn = pgdat->node_start_pfn;
 
@@ -1934,9 +1933,6 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
 		zone->zone_mem_map = pfn_to_page(zone_start_pfn);
 		zone->zone_start_pfn = zone_start_pfn;
 
-		if ((zone_start_pfn) & (zone_required_alignment-1))
-			printk(KERN_CRIT "BUG: wrong zone alignment, it will crash\n");
-
 		memmap_init(size, nid, j, zone_start_pfn);
 
 		zonetable_add(zone, nid, j, zone_start_pfn, size);