diff --git a/src/runtime/crash_cgo_test.go b/src/runtime/crash_cgo_test.go
index 58c340f8ad..9a174fa549 100644
--- a/src/runtime/crash_cgo_test.go
+++ b/src/runtime/crash_cgo_test.go
@@ -302,12 +302,7 @@ func testCgoPprof(t *testing.T, buildArg, runArg, top, bottom string) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	// pprofCgoTraceback is called whenever CGO code is executing and a signal
-	// is received. Disable signal preemption to increase the likelihood at
-	// least one SIGPROF signal fired to capture a sample. See issue #37201.
 	cmd := testenv.CleanCmdEnv(exec.Command(exe, runArg))
-	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, "GODEBUG=asyncpreemptoff=1")
-
 	got, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
 	if err != nil {
 		if testenv.Builder() == "linux-amd64-alpine" {
diff --git a/src/runtime/testdata/testprogcgo/pprof.go b/src/runtime/testdata/testprogcgo/pprof.go
index 3b73fa0bdd..8870d0c415 100644
--- a/src/runtime/testdata/testprogcgo/pprof.go
+++ b/src/runtime/testdata/testprogcgo/pprof.go
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ void cpuHog() {
 void cpuHog2() {
 }
 
-static int cpuHogCount;
-
 struct cgoTracebackArg {
 	uintptr_t  context;
 	uintptr_t  sigContext;
@@ -47,13 +45,6 @@ void pprofCgoTraceback(void* parg) {
 	arg->buf[0] = (uintptr_t)(cpuHog) + 0x10;
 	arg->buf[1] = (uintptr_t)(cpuHog2) + 0x4;
 	arg->buf[2] = 0;
-	++cpuHogCount;
-}
-
-// getCpuHogCount fetches the number of times we've seen cpuHog in the
-// traceback.
-int getCpuHogCount() {
-	return cpuHogCount;
 }
 */
 import "C"
@@ -86,7 +77,7 @@ func CgoPprof() {
 	}
 
 	t0 := time.Now()
-	for C.getCpuHogCount() < 2 && time.Since(t0) < time.Second {
+	for time.Since(t0) < time.Second {
 		C.cpuHog()
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/runtime/testdata/testprogcgo/threadpprof.go b/src/runtime/testdata/testprogcgo/threadpprof.go
index feb774ba59..4bc84d16d0 100644
--- a/src/runtime/testdata/testprogcgo/threadpprof.go
+++ b/src/runtime/testdata/testprogcgo/threadpprof.go
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ void cpuHogThread() {
 void cpuHogThread2() {
 }
 
-static int cpuHogThreadCount;
-
 struct cgoTracebackArg {
 	uintptr_t  context;
 	uintptr_t  sigContext;
@@ -49,13 +47,6 @@ void pprofCgoThreadTraceback(void* parg) {
 	arg->buf[0] = (uintptr_t)(cpuHogThread) + 0x10;
 	arg->buf[1] = (uintptr_t)(cpuHogThread2) + 0x4;
 	arg->buf[2] = 0;
-	__sync_add_and_fetch(&cpuHogThreadCount, 1);
-}
-
-// getCPUHogThreadCount fetches the number of times we've seen cpuHogThread
-// in the traceback.
-int getCPUHogThreadCount() {
-	return __sync_add_and_fetch(&cpuHogThreadCount, 0);
 }
 
 static void* cpuHogDriver(void* arg __attribute__ ((unused))) {
@@ -109,10 +100,7 @@ func pprofThread() {
 
 	C.runCPUHogThread()
 
-	t0 := time.Now()
-	for C.getCPUHogThreadCount() < 2 && time.Since(t0) < time.Second {
-		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
+	time.Sleep(1*time.Second)
 
 	pprof.StopCPUProfile()