diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
index 41191b5fb69d..faac50149a22 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -87,10 +87,8 @@ Brief summary of control files.
  memory.oom_control		     set/show oom controls.
  memory.numa_stat		     show the number of memory usage per numa
 				     node
- memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes          set/show hard limit for kernel memory
-                                     This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
-                                     used. It is planned that this be removed in
-                                     the foreseeable future.
+ memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes          This knob is deprecated and writing to
+                                     it will return -ENOTSUPP.
  memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes          show current kernel memory allocation
  memory.kmem.failcnt                 show the number of kernel memory usage
 				     hits limits
@@ -518,11 +516,6 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it.
   charged file caches. Some out-of-use page caches may keep charged until
   memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
 
-  Also, note that when memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set the charges due to
-  kernel pages will still be seen. This is not considered a failure and the
-  write will still return success. In this case, it is expected that
-  memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes == memory.usage_in_bytes.
-
 5.2 stat file
 -------------
 
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e092cce3c96e..e4fcb6e55f75 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2771,8 +2771,7 @@ static inline int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	return try_charge_memcg(memcg, gfp_mask, nr_pages);
 }
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) || defined(CONFIG_MMU)
-static void cancel_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
+static inline void cancel_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
 {
 	if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
 		return;
@@ -2781,7 +2780,6 @@ static void cancel_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
 	if (do_memsw_account())
 		page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memsw, nr_pages);
 }
-#endif
 
 static void commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
@@ -3000,7 +2998,6 @@ static void obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
 static int obj_cgroup_charge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp,
 				   unsigned int nr_pages)
 {
-	struct page_counter *counter;
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -3010,21 +3007,8 @@ static int obj_cgroup_charge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp,
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) &&
-	    !page_counter_try_charge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages, &counter)) {
-
-		/*
-		 * Enforce __GFP_NOFAIL allocation because callers are not
-		 * prepared to see failures and likely do not have any failure
-		 * handling code.
-		 */
-		if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
-			page_counter_charge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages);
-			goto out;
-		}
-		cancel_charge(memcg, nr_pages);
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-	}
+	if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys))
+		page_counter_charge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages);
 out:
 	css_put(&memcg->css);
 
@@ -3714,17 +3698,6 @@ static void memcg_offline_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
 
-static int memcg_update_kmem_max(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
-				 unsigned long max)
-{
-	int ret;
-
-	mutex_lock(&memcg_max_mutex);
-	ret = page_counter_set_max(&memcg->kmem, max);
-	mutex_unlock(&memcg_max_mutex);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 static int memcg_update_tcp_max(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long max)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -3790,10 +3763,8 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 			ret = mem_cgroup_resize_max(memcg, nr_pages, true);
 			break;
 		case _KMEM:
-			pr_warn_once("kmem.limit_in_bytes is deprecated and will be removed. "
-				     "Please report your usecase to linux-mm@kvack.org if you "
-				     "depend on this functionality.\n");
-			ret = memcg_update_kmem_max(memcg, nr_pages);
+			/* kmem.limit_in_bytes is deprecated. */
+			ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 			break;
 		case _TCP:
 			ret = memcg_update_tcp_max(memcg, nr_pages);