diff --git a/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg.h b/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
index 811fb1e9b061..3766ab34aa45 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
@@ -86,9 +86,6 @@ unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x, volatile void *ptr, int size)
 
 /*
  * Atomic compare and exchange.
- *
- * Do not define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG because we want to use it to check whether
- * a cmpxchg primitive faster than repeated local irq save/restore exists.
  */
 #include <asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h>
 
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index b73279367087..27dff663f9e4 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ static void fixup_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex *lock)
 }
 
 /*
- * We can speed up the acquire/release, if the architecture
- * supports cmpxchg and if there's no debugging state to be set up
+ * We can speed up the acquire/release, if there's no debugging state to be
+ * set up.
  */
-#if defined(__HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG) && !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES)
+#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
 # define rt_mutex_cmpxchg(l,c,n)	(cmpxchg(&l->owner, c, n) == c)
 static inline void mark_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex *lock)
 {