diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
index f65182667825787979f155dc41c6b71e37a27265..4066e788cff887f6de30957f5d3ab999956c1b1f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
@@ -1573,7 +1573,6 @@ int ttm_bo_device_init(struct ttm_bo_device *bdev,
 		goto out_no_addr_mm;
 
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&bdev->wq, ttm_bo_delayed_workqueue);
-	bdev->nice_mode = true;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdev->ddestroy);
 	bdev->dev_mapping = NULL;
 	bdev->glob = glob;
diff --git a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h
index d803b92b032414ce6744ea0d0510b4dfc2323740..95628e7da5bfbb3fdd1be8b397bee255ce970776 100644
--- a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h
+++ b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h
@@ -521,8 +521,6 @@ struct ttm_bo_global {
  * lru_lock: Spinlock that protects the buffer+device lru lists and
  * ddestroy lists.
  * @val_seq: Current validation sequence.
- * @nice_mode: Try nicely to wait for buffer idle when cleaning a manager.
- * If a GPU lockup has been detected, this is forced to 0.
  * @dev_mapping: A pointer to the struct address_space representing the
  * device address space.
  * @wq: Work queue structure for the delayed delete workqueue.
@@ -556,7 +554,6 @@ struct ttm_bo_device {
 	 * Protected by load / firstopen / lastclose /unload sync.
 	 */
 
-	bool nice_mode;
 	struct address_space *dev_mapping;
 
 	/*