diff --git a/mm/page_ext.c b/mm/page_ext.c
index 4f0367d472c4..2c16216c29b6 100644
--- a/mm/page_ext.c
+++ b/mm/page_ext.c
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ struct page_ext *lookup_page_ext(struct page *page)
 	struct page_ext *base;
 
 	base = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->node_page_ext;
-#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)
 	/*
 	 * The sanity checks the page allocator does upon freeing a
 	 * page can reach here before the page_ext arrays are
@@ -134,7 +133,6 @@ struct page_ext *lookup_page_ext(struct page *page)
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!base))
 		return NULL;
-#endif
 	index = pfn - round_down(node_start_pfn(page_to_nid(page)),
 					MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
 	return get_entry(base, index);
@@ -199,7 +197,6 @@ struct page_ext *lookup_page_ext(struct page *page)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
 	struct mem_section *section = __pfn_to_section(pfn);
-#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)
 	/*
 	 * The sanity checks the page allocator does upon freeing a
 	 * page can reach here before the page_ext arrays are
@@ -208,7 +205,6 @@ struct page_ext *lookup_page_ext(struct page *page)
 	 */
 	if (!section->page_ext)
 		return NULL;
-#endif
 	return get_entry(section->page_ext, pfn);
 }