diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c b/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
index 61499293c2ac..e55f489e1fb7 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
@@ -587,10 +587,6 @@ void kvm_s390_vsie_gmap_notifier(struct gmap *gmap, unsigned long start,
 
 	if (!gmap_is_shadow(gmap))
 		return;
-	if (start >= 1UL << 31)
-		/* We are only interested in prefix pages */
-		return;
-
 	/*
 	 * Only new shadow blocks are added to the list during runtime,
 	 * therefore we can safely reference them all the time.