diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object.c
index 1e426a42a36c0..55b0f1df3192a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object.c
@@ -363,15 +363,6 @@ static void i915_gem_free_object(struct drm_gem_object *gem_obj)
 	 */
 	atomic_inc(&i915->mm.free_count);
 
-	/*
-	 * This serializes freeing with the shrinker. Since the free
-	 * is delayed, first by RCU then by the workqueue, we want the
-	 * shrinker to be able to free pages of unreferenced objects,
-	 * or else we may oom whilst there are plenty of deferred
-	 * freed objects.
-	 */
-	i915_gem_object_make_unshrinkable(obj);
-
 	/*
 	 * Since we require blocking on struct_mutex to unbind the freed
 	 * object from the GPU before releasing resources back to the