diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 6a386720..27eb90d3 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@ TESTS_UNIT := \
 	$(srcroot)test/unit/hook.c \
 	$(srcroot)test/unit/hpa.c \
 	$(srcroot)test/unit/hpa_background_thread.c \
-	$(srcroot)test/unit/hpa_validate_conf.c \
 	$(srcroot)test/unit/hpdata.c \
 	$(srcroot)test/unit/huge.c \
 	$(srcroot)test/unit/inspect.c \
diff --git a/src/jemalloc.c b/src/jemalloc.c
index 248de28b..67be7681 100644
--- a/src/jemalloc.c
+++ b/src/jemalloc.c
@@ -1041,44 +1041,6 @@ obtain_malloc_conf(unsigned which_source, char readlink_buf[PATH_MAX + 1]) {
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static bool
-validate_hpa_ratios(void) {
-	size_t hpa_threshold = fxp_mul_frac(HUGEPAGE, opt_hpa_opts.dirty_mult) +
-	    opt_hpa_opts.hugification_threshold;
-	if (hpa_threshold > HUGEPAGE) {
-		return false;
-	}
-
-	char hpa_dirty_mult[FXP_BUF_SIZE];
-	char hugification_threshold[FXP_BUF_SIZE];
-	char normalization_message[256] = {0};
-	fxp_print(opt_hpa_opts.dirty_mult, hpa_dirty_mult);
-	fxp_print(fxp_div(FXP_INIT_INT((unsigned)
-	    (opt_hpa_opts.hugification_threshold >> LG_PAGE)),
-	    FXP_INIT_INT(HUGEPAGE_PAGES)), hugification_threshold);
-	if (!opt_abort_conf) {
-		char normalized_hugification_threshold[FXP_BUF_SIZE];
-		opt_hpa_opts.hugification_threshold +=
-		    HUGEPAGE - hpa_threshold;
-		fxp_print(fxp_div(FXP_INIT_INT((unsigned)
-		    (opt_hpa_opts.hugification_threshold >> LG_PAGE)),
-		    FXP_INIT_INT(HUGEPAGE_PAGES)),
-		    normalized_hugification_threshold);
-		malloc_snprintf(normalization_message,
-		    sizeof(normalization_message), "<jemalloc>: Normalizing "
-		    "HPA settings to avoid pathological behavior, setting "
-		    "hpa_hugification_threshold_ratio: to %s.\n",
-		    normalized_hugification_threshold);
-	}
-	malloc_printf(
-	    "<jemalloc>: Invalid combination of options "
-	    "hpa_hugification_threshold_ratio: %s and hpa_dirty_mult: %s. "
-	    "These values should sum to > 1.0.\n%s", hugification_threshold,
-	    hpa_dirty_mult, normalization_message);
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 static void
 validate_hpa_settings(void) {
 	if (!hpa_supported() || !opt_hpa) {
@@ -1090,9 +1052,6 @@ validate_hpa_settings(void) {
 		    "<jemalloc>: huge page size (%zu) greater than expected."
 		    "May not be supported or behave as expected.", HUGEPAGE);
 	}
-	if (opt_hpa_opts.dirty_mult != (fxp_t)-1 && validate_hpa_ratios()) {
-		had_conf_error = true;
-	}
 #ifndef JEMALLOC_HAVE_MADVISE_COLLAPSE
 	if (opt_hpa_opts.hugify_sync) {
 	       had_conf_error = true;
diff --git a/test/unit/hpa_background_thread.sh b/test/unit/hpa_background_thread.sh
index 33b70e19..65a56a08 100644
--- a/test/unit/hpa_background_thread.sh
+++ b/test/unit/hpa_background_thread.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-export MALLOC_CONF="hpa_dirty_mult:0.001,hpa_hugification_threshold_ratio:1.0,hpa_min_purge_interval_ms:50,hpa_sec_nshards:0"
+export MALLOC_CONF="hpa_dirty_mult:0,hpa_min_purge_interval_ms:50,hpa_sec_nshards:0"
 
diff --git a/test/unit/hpa_validate_conf.c b/test/unit/hpa_validate_conf.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c1847ba..00000000
--- a/test/unit/hpa_validate_conf.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-#include "test/jemalloc_test.h"
-
-static bool abort_called = false;
-static void (*default_malloc_message)(void *, const char *);
-
-static void
-mock_invalid_conf_abort(void) {
-	abort_called = true;
-}
-
-static void
-null_malloc_message(void *_1, const char* _2) {
-}
-
-TEST_BEGIN(test_hpa_validate_conf) {
-	test_skip_if(!hpa_supported());
-	void *ptr = malloc(4096);
-	/* Need to restore this here to see any possible assert messages */
-	malloc_message = default_malloc_message;
-	assert_true(abort_called,
-	     "Should have aborted due to invalid values for hpa_dirty_mult and "
-	     "hpa_hugification_threshold_ratio");
-	free(ptr);
-}
-TEST_END
-
-/*
- * We have to set `abort_conf:true` here and not via the `MALLOC_CONF`
- * environment variable in the associated shell script for this test. This is
- * because when testing on FreeBSD (where Jemalloc is the system allocator) in
- * CI configs where HPA is not supported, setting `abort_conf:true` there would
- * result in the system Jemalloc picking this up and aborting before we could
- * ever even launch the test.
- */
-const char *malloc_conf = "abort_conf:true";
-
-int
-main(void) {
-	/*
-	 * OK, this is a sort of nasty hack.  We don't want to add *another*
-	 * config option for HPA (the intent is that it becomes available on
-	 * more platforms over time, and we're trying to prune back config
-	 * options generally.  But we'll get initialization errors on other
-	 * platforms if we set hpa:true in the MALLOC_CONF (even if we set
-	 * abort_conf:false as well).  So we reach into the internals and set
-	 * them directly, but only if we know that we're actually going to do
-	 * something nontrivial in the tests.
-	 */
-	if (hpa_supported()) {
-		default_malloc_message = malloc_message;
-		malloc_message = null_malloc_message;
-		opt_hpa = true;
-		invalid_conf_abort = mock_invalid_conf_abort;
-	}
-	return test_no_reentrancy(test_hpa_validate_conf);
-}
diff --git a/test/unit/hpa_validate_conf.sh b/test/unit/hpa_validate_conf.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 692c3da9..00000000
--- a/test/unit/hpa_validate_conf.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-export MALLOC_CONF='tcache:false,hpa_dirty_mult:0.25,hpa_hugification_threshold_ratio:0.6'