diff --git a/kernel/include/mmu.h b/kernel/include/mmu.h
index 00d9579d04c..a2a0300fca1 100644
--- a/kernel/include/mmu.h
+++ b/kernel/include/mmu.h
@@ -355,16 +355,6 @@ void z_backing_store_init(void);
  * Core kernel demand paging APIs
  */
 
-/**
- * Number of page faults since system startup
- *
- * Counts only those page faults that were handled successfully by the demand
- * paging mechanism and were not errors.
- *
- * @return Number of successful page faults
- */
-unsigned long z_num_pagefaults_get(void);
-
 /**
  * Free a page frame physical address by evicting its contents
  *
diff --git a/kernel/mmu.c b/kernel/mmu.c
index 15defbfd959..c1c88265866 100644
--- a/kernel/mmu.c
+++ b/kernel/mmu.c
@@ -564,8 +564,6 @@ void z_mem_manage_init(void)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEMAND_PAGING
-static unsigned long z_num_pagefaults;
-
 /* Current implementation relies on interrupt locking to any prevent page table
  * access, which falls over if other CPUs are active. Addressing this is not
  * as simple as using spinlocks as regular memory reads/writes constitute
@@ -946,30 +944,7 @@ void z_mem_pin(void *addr, size_t size)
 
 bool z_page_fault(void *addr)
 {
-	bool ret;
-
-	ret = do_page_fault(addr, false);
-	if (ret) {
-		/* Wasn't an error, increment page fault count */
-		int key;
-
-		key = irq_lock();
-		z_num_pagefaults++;
-		irq_unlock(key);
-	}
-	return ret;
-}
-
-unsigned long z_num_pagefaults_get(void)
-{
-	unsigned long ret;
-	int key;
-
-	key = irq_lock();
-	ret = z_num_pagefaults;
-	irq_unlock(key);
-
-	return ret;
+	return do_page_fault(addr, false);
 }
 
 static void do_mem_unpin(void *addr)
diff --git a/tests/kernel/mem_protect/demand_paging/src/main.c b/tests/kernel/mem_protect/demand_paging/src/main.c
index 44406718d7d..3a692c3ab02 100644
--- a/tests/kernel/mem_protect/demand_paging/src/main.c
+++ b/tests/kernel/mem_protect/demand_paging/src/main.c
@@ -40,11 +40,8 @@ void test_map_anon_pages(void)
 
 void test_touch_anon_pages(void)
 {
-	unsigned long faults;
 	static const char *nums = "0123456789";
 
-	faults = z_num_pagefaults_get();
-
 	printk("checking zeroes\n");
 	/* The mapped area should have started out zeroed. Check this. */
 	for (size_t i = 0; i < arena_size; i++) {
@@ -66,12 +63,6 @@ void test_touch_anon_pages(void)
 			      "arena corrupted at index %d (%p): got 0x%hhx expected 0x%hhx",
 			      i, &arena[i], arena[i], nums[i % 10]);
 	}
-
-	faults = z_num_pagefaults_get() - faults;
-
-	/* Specific number depends on how much RAM we have but shouldn't be 0 */
-	zassert_not_equal(faults, 0UL, "no page faults handled?");
-	printk("Kernel handled %lu page faults\n", faults);
 }
 
 /* ztest main entry*/