diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 474bcb6c0bac..65e5e29e8760 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -7633,7 +7633,6 @@ F:	kernel/delayacct.c
 
 PERFORMANCE EVENTS SUBSYSTEM
 M:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
-M:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
 M:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
 M:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org