diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
index d8d25f62aaad..bbfebbe26f4d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
@@ -379,8 +379,8 @@ ifneq ($(TCMALLOC),)
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(FEATURES_DUMP),)
-# We will display at the end of this Makefile.config, using $(call feature_display_entries)
-# As we may retry some feature detection here, see the disassembler-four-args case, for instance
+# We will display at the end of this Makefile.config, using $(call feature_display_entries),
+# as we may retry some feature detection here.
   FEATURE_DISPLAY_DEFERRED := 1
 include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.feature
 else
@@ -935,8 +935,6 @@ ifdef BUILD_NONDISTRO
 
   ifeq ($(feature-libbfd), 1)
     EXTLIBS += -lbfd -lopcodes
-    FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-four-args = -lbfd -lopcodes -ldl
-    FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-init-styled = -lbfd -lopcodes -ldl
   else
     # we are on a system that requires -liberty and (maybe) -lz
     # to link against -lbfd; test each case individually here
@@ -948,13 +946,9 @@ ifdef BUILD_NONDISTRO
 
     ifeq ($(feature-libbfd-liberty), 1)
       EXTLIBS += -lbfd -lopcodes -liberty
-      FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-four-args += -liberty -ldl
-      FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-init-styled += -liberty -ldl
     else
       ifeq ($(feature-libbfd-liberty-z), 1)
         EXTLIBS += -lbfd -lopcodes -liberty -lz
-        FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-four-args += -liberty -lz -ldl
-        FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-init-styled += -liberty -lz -ldl
       endif
     endif
     $(call feature_check,disassembler-four-args)
@@ -1332,6 +1326,6 @@ endif
 
 # re-generate FEATURE-DUMP as we may have called feature_check, found out
 # extra libraries to add to LDFLAGS of some other test and then redo those
-# tests, see the block about libbfd, disassembler-four-args, for instance.
+# tests.
 $(shell rm -f $(FEATURE_DUMP_FILENAME))
 $(foreach feat,$(FEATURE_TESTS),$(shell echo "$(call feature_assign,$(feat))" >> $(FEATURE_DUMP_FILENAME)))