diff --git a/src/librustc/ich/impls_ty.rs b/src/librustc/ich/impls_ty.rs
index 99ac5869b2969..c5be1b1174c43 100644
--- a/src/librustc/ich/impls_ty.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/ich/impls_ty.rs
@@ -551,7 +551,6 @@ for ::mir::interpret::EvalError<'gcx> {
             InvalidPointerMath |
             ReadUndefBytes |
             DeadLocal |
-            ExecutionTimeLimitReached |
             StackFrameLimitReached |
             OutOfTls |
             TlsOutOfBounds |
diff --git a/src/librustc/mir/interpret/error.rs b/src/librustc/mir/interpret/error.rs
index 9e69990f22c0d..b919f4d15a840 100644
--- a/src/librustc/mir/interpret/error.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/mir/interpret/error.rs
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ pub enum EvalErrorKind<'tcx> {
     Intrinsic(String),
     OverflowingMath,
     InvalidChar(u128),
-    ExecutionTimeLimitReached,
     StackFrameLimitReached,
     OutOfTls,
     TlsOutOfBounds,
@@ -188,8 +187,6 @@ impl<'tcx> Error for EvalError<'tcx> {
                 "mir not found",
             InvalidChar(..) =>
                 "tried to interpret an invalid 32-bit value as a char",
-            ExecutionTimeLimitReached =>
-                "the expression was too complex to be evaluated or resulted in an infinite loop",
             StackFrameLimitReached =>
                 "reached the configured maximum number of stack frames",
             OutOfTls =>
diff --git a/src/librustc/session/mod.rs b/src/librustc/session/mod.rs
index 8f2043fdfc643..32de006459d32 100644
--- a/src/librustc/session/mod.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/session/mod.rs
@@ -112,8 +112,6 @@ pub struct Session {
 
     /// The maximum number of stackframes allowed in const eval
     pub const_eval_stack_frame_limit: usize,
-    /// The maximum number miri steps per constant
-    pub const_eval_step_limit: usize,
 
     /// The metadata::creader module may inject an allocator/panic_runtime
     /// dependency if it didn't already find one, and this tracks what was
@@ -1103,7 +1101,6 @@ pub fn build_session_(
         recursion_limit: Once::new(),
         type_length_limit: Once::new(),
         const_eval_stack_frame_limit: 100,
-        const_eval_step_limit: 1_000_000,
         next_node_id: OneThread::new(Cell::new(NodeId::new(1))),
         injected_allocator: Once::new(),
         allocator_kind: Once::new(),
diff --git a/src/librustc/ty/structural_impls.rs b/src/librustc/ty/structural_impls.rs
index 8cf662ccaea92..7b4b7082bb6ce 100644
--- a/src/librustc/ty/structural_impls.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/ty/structural_impls.rs
@@ -509,7 +509,6 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> Lift<'tcx> for interpret::EvalError<'a> {
             Intrinsic(ref s) => Intrinsic(s.clone()),
             OverflowingMath => OverflowingMath,
             InvalidChar(c) => InvalidChar(c),
-            ExecutionTimeLimitReached => ExecutionTimeLimitReached,
             StackFrameLimitReached => StackFrameLimitReached,
             OutOfTls => OutOfTls,
             TlsOutOfBounds => TlsOutOfBounds,
diff --git a/src/librustc_mir/interpret/eval_context.rs b/src/librustc_mir/interpret/eval_context.rs
index 158d674580b53..03785f9623b8c 100644
--- a/src/librustc_mir/interpret/eval_context.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_mir/interpret/eval_context.rs
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ pub struct EvalContext<'a, 'mir, 'tcx: 'a + 'mir, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> {
     /// The maximum number of terminators that may be evaluated.
     /// This prevents infinite loops and huge computations from freezing up const eval.
     /// Remove once halting problem is solved.
-    pub(crate) steps_remaining: usize,
+    pub(crate) terminators_remaining: usize,
 }
 
 /// A stack frame.
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ impl<'a, 'mir, 'tcx: 'mir, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> EvalContext<'a, 'mir, 'tcx, M
             memory: Memory::new(tcx, memory_data),
             stack: Vec::new(),
             stack_limit: tcx.sess.const_eval_stack_frame_limit,
-            steps_remaining: tcx.sess.const_eval_step_limit,
+            terminators_remaining: 1_000_000,
         }
     }
 
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ impl<'a, 'mir, 'tcx: 'mir, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> EvalContext<'a, 'mir, 'tcx, M
             }
 
             Aggregate(ref kind, ref operands) => {
-                self.inc_step_counter_and_check_limit(operands.len())?;
+                self.inc_step_counter_and_check_limit(operands.len());
 
                 let (dest, active_field_index) = match **kind {
                     mir::AggregateKind::Adt(adt_def, variant_index, _, active_field_index) => {
diff --git a/src/librustc_mir/interpret/step.rs b/src/librustc_mir/interpret/step.rs
index a22572ec687c3..554d87a04e2f8 100644
--- a/src/librustc_mir/interpret/step.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_mir/interpret/step.rs
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ use rustc::mir::interpret::EvalResult;
 use super::{EvalContext, Machine};
 
 impl<'a, 'mir, 'tcx, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> EvalContext<'a, 'mir, 'tcx, M> {
-    pub fn inc_step_counter_and_check_limit(&mut self, n: usize) -> EvalResult<'tcx> {
-        self.steps_remaining = self.steps_remaining.saturating_sub(n);
-        if self.steps_remaining > 0 {
-            Ok(())
-        } else {
-            err!(ExecutionTimeLimitReached)
+    pub fn inc_step_counter_and_check_limit(&mut self, n: usize) {
+        self.terminators_remaining = self.terminators_remaining.saturating_sub(n);
+        if self.terminators_remaining == 0 {
+            // FIXME(#49980): make this warning a lint
+            self.tcx.sess.span_warn(self.frame().span, "Constant evaluating a complex constant, this might take some time");
+            self.terminators_remaining = 1_000_000;
         }
     }
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ impl<'a, 'mir, 'tcx, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> EvalContext<'a, 'mir, 'tcx, M> {
             return Ok(true);
         }
 
-        self.inc_step_counter_and_check_limit(1)?;
+        self.inc_step_counter_and_check_limit(1);
 
         let terminator = basic_block.terminator();
         assert_eq!(old_frames, self.cur_frame());