diff --git a/src/pages.c b/src/pages.c
index 9561eb36..7ef3de75 100644
--- a/src/pages.c
+++ b/src/pages.c
@@ -586,6 +586,11 @@ pages_boot(void) {
 
 	init_thp_state();
 
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+	/*
+	 * FreeBSD doesn't need the check; madvise(2) is known to work.
+	 */
+#else
 	/* Detect lazy purge runtime support. */
 	if (pages_can_purge_lazy) {
 		bool committed = false;
@@ -599,6 +604,7 @@ pages_boot(void) {
 		}
 		os_pages_unmap(madv_free_page, PAGE);
 	}
+#endif
 
 	return false;
 }