diff --git a/lib/std/zig/system/loongarch.zig b/lib/std/zig/system/loongarch.zig
index afc26d5db1be83ad95b105dfbd60ba7967ce30c5..da0d6fecb2807b7fa8b01afcb9ad74ab4f029a2c 100644
--- a/lib/std/zig/system/loongarch.zig
+++ b/lib/std/zig/system/loongarch.zig
@@ -94,21 +94,9 @@ pub fn detectNativeCpuAndFeatures(
     return cpu;
 }
 
-/// This is a workaround for the C backend until zig has the ability to put
-/// C code in inline assembly.
-extern fn zig_loongarch_cpucfg(word: u32, result: *u32) callconv(.c) void;
-
 fn cpucfg(word: u32) u32 {
-    var result: u32 = undefined;
-
-    if (builtin.zig_backend == .stage2_c) {
-        zig_loongarch_cpucfg(word, &result);
-    } else {
-        asm ("cpucfg %[result], %[word]"
-            : [result] "=r" (result),
-            : [word] "r" (word),
-        );
-    }
-
-    return result;
+    return asm ("cpucfg %[result], %[word]"
+        : [result] "=r" (-> u32),
+        : [word] "r" (word),
+    );
 }
diff --git a/lib/zig.h b/lib/zig.h
index dd9fa902f34bf2073c111763208937b4abbac01f..ad4156b64a1abf3503a3d55eee385690e6b59a54 100644
--- a/lib/zig.h
+++ b/lib/zig.h
@@ -6750,19 +6750,7 @@ static inline void* zig_e_zig_windows_peb(void) {
 
 #endif
 
-#if defined(zig_loongarch)
-
-static inline void zig_e_zig_loongarch_cpucfg(uint32_t word, uint32_t* result) zig_mangled(zig_e_zig_loongarch_cpucfg, "zig_loongarch_cpucfg");
-
-static inline void zig_e_zig_loongarch_cpucfg(uint32_t word, uint32_t* result) {
-#if defined(zig_gnuc_asm)
-    __asm__("cpucfg %[result], %[word]" : [result] "=r" (*result) : [word] "r" (word));
-#else
-    *result = 0;
-#endif
-}
-
-#elif defined(zig_x86) && !defined(zig_x86_16)
+#if defined(zig_x86) && !defined(zig_x86_16)
 
 static inline void zig_e_zig_x86_cpuid(uint32_t leaf_id, uint32_t subid, uint32_t* eax, uint32_t* ebx, uint32_t* ecx, uint32_t* edx) zig_mangled(zig_e_zig_x86_cpuid, "zig_x86_cpuid");
 static inline uint32_t zig_e_zig_x86_get_xcr0(void) zig_mangled(zig_e_zig_x86_get_xcr0, "zig_x86_get_xcr0");