diff --git a/fs/ext2/file.c b/fs/ext2/file.c
index a0e1478..fb88b51 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/file.c
@@ -107,27 +107,6 @@
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int ext2_dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
-						pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags)
-{
-	struct inode *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
-	struct ext2_inode_info *ei = EXT2_I(inode);
-	int ret;
-
-	if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
-		sb_start_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
-		file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
-	}
-	down_read(&ei->dax_sem);
-
-	ret = dax_pmd_fault(vma, addr, pmd, flags, ext2_get_block);
-
-	up_read(&ei->dax_sem);
-	if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
-		sb_end_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 static int ext2_dax_pfn_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		struct vm_fault *vmf)
 {
@@ -154,7 +133,11 @@
 
 static const struct vm_operations_struct ext2_dax_vm_ops = {
 	.fault		= ext2_dax_fault,
-	.pmd_fault	= ext2_dax_pmd_fault,
+	/*
+	 * .pmd_fault is not supported for DAX because allocation in ext2
+	 * cannot be reliably aligned to huge page sizes and so pmd faults
+	 * will always fail and fail back to regular faults.
+	 */
 	.page_mkwrite	= ext2_dax_fault,
 	.pfn_mkwrite	= ext2_dax_pfn_mkwrite,
 };
@@ -166,7 +149,7 @@
 
 	file_accessed(file);
 	vma->vm_ops = &ext2_dax_vm_ops;
-	vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_HUGEPAGE;
+	vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP;
 	return 0;
 }
 #else