diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index f168693695bd..0a4438544c0d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -5326,13 +5326,6 @@ static void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
 
 	pgprintk("%s: gpa %llx bytes %d\n", __func__, gpa, bytes);
 
-	/*
-	 * No need to care whether allocation memory is successful
-	 * or not since pte prefetch is skipped if it does not have
-	 * enough objects in the cache.
-	 */
-	mmu_topup_memory_caches(vcpu, true);
-
 	write_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
 
 	gentry = mmu_pte_write_fetch_gpte(vcpu, &gpa, &bytes);