diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index cee3cb6455a2..6ea0820e7c7f 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@
 #define KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS 32
 
 /*
- * These seem to be used for allocating ->chip in the routing table,
- * which we don't use. 4096 is an out-of-thin-air value. If we need
- * to look at ->chip later on, we'll need to revisit this.
+ * These seem to be used for allocating ->chip in the routing table, which we
+ * don't use. 1 is as small as we can get to reduce the needed memory. If we
+ * need to look at ->chip later on, we'll need to revisit this.
  */
 #define KVM_NR_IRQCHIPS 1
-#define KVM_IRQCHIP_NUM_PINS 4096
+#define KVM_IRQCHIP_NUM_PINS 1
 #define KVM_HALT_POLL_NS_DEFAULT 50000
 
 /* s390-specific vcpu->requests bit members */