diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 2265f28eb47a..554fa395aac9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1079,11 +1079,7 @@ extern void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo * val);
 extern void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid);
 extern int after_bootmem;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 extern void setup_per_cpu_pageset(void);
-#else
-static inline void setup_per_cpu_pageset(void) {}
-#endif
 
 extern void zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 30fe668c2542..7874201a3556 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -184,13 +184,7 @@ struct per_cpu_pageset {
 	s8 stat_threshold;
 	s8 vm_stat_diff[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS];
 #endif
-} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-#define zone_pcp(__z, __cpu) ((__z)->pageset[(__cpu)])
-#else
-#define zone_pcp(__z, __cpu) (&(__z)->pageset[(__cpu)])
-#endif
+};
 
 #endif /* !__GENERATING_BOUNDS.H */
 
@@ -306,10 +300,8 @@ struct zone {
 	 */
 	unsigned long		min_unmapped_pages;
 	unsigned long		min_slab_pages;
-	struct per_cpu_pageset	*pageset[NR_CPUS];
-#else
-	struct per_cpu_pageset	pageset[NR_CPUS];
 #endif
+	struct per_cpu_pageset	*pageset;
 	/*
 	 * free areas of different sizes
 	 */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 4e9f5cc5fb59..6849e870de54 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1008,10 +1008,10 @@ static void drain_pages(unsigned int cpu)
 		struct per_cpu_pageset *pset;
 		struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
 
-		pset = zone_pcp(zone, cpu);
+		local_irq_save(flags);
+		pset = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
 
 		pcp = &pset->pcp;
-		local_irq_save(flags);
 		free_pcppages_bulk(zone, pcp->count, pcp);
 		pcp->count = 0;
 		local_irq_restore(flags);
@@ -1095,7 +1095,6 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
 	arch_free_page(page, 0);
 	kernel_map_pages(page, 1, 0);
 
-	pcp = &zone_pcp(zone, get_cpu())->pcp;
 	migratetype = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
 	set_page_private(page, migratetype);
 	local_irq_save(flags);
@@ -1118,6 +1117,7 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
 		migratetype = MIGRATE_MOVABLE;
 	}
 
+	pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
 	if (cold)
 		list_add_tail(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[migratetype]);
 	else
@@ -1130,7 +1130,6 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
 
 out:
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
-	put_cpu();
 }
 
 void free_hot_page(struct page *page)
@@ -1180,17 +1179,15 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct page *page;
 	int cold = !!(gfp_flags & __GFP_COLD);
-	int cpu;
 
 again:
-	cpu  = get_cpu();
 	if (likely(order == 0)) {
 		struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
 		struct list_head *list;
 
-		pcp = &zone_pcp(zone, cpu)->pcp;
-		list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
 		local_irq_save(flags);
+		pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
+		list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
 		if (list_empty(list)) {
 			pcp->count += rmqueue_bulk(zone, 0,
 					pcp->batch, list,
@@ -1231,7 +1228,6 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 	__count_zone_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone, 1 << order);
 	zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone);
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
-	put_cpu();
 
 	VM_BUG_ON(bad_range(zone, page));
 	if (prep_new_page(page, order, gfp_flags))
@@ -1240,7 +1236,6 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 
 failed:
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
-	put_cpu();
 	return NULL;
 }
 
@@ -2179,7 +2174,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void)
 		for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 			struct per_cpu_pageset *pageset;
 
-			pageset = zone_pcp(zone, cpu);
+			pageset = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
 
 			printk("CPU %4d: hi:%5d, btch:%4d usd:%4d\n",
 			       cpu, pageset->pcp.high,
@@ -2744,10 +2739,29 @@ static void build_zonelist_cache(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 
 #endif	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
 
+/*
+ * Boot pageset table. One per cpu which is going to be used for all
+ * zones and all nodes. The parameters will be set in such a way
+ * that an item put on a list will immediately be handed over to
+ * the buddy list. This is safe since pageset manipulation is done
+ * with interrupts disabled.
+ *
+ * The boot_pagesets must be kept even after bootup is complete for
+ * unused processors and/or zones. They do play a role for bootstrapping
+ * hotplugged processors.
+ *
+ * zoneinfo_show() and maybe other functions do
+ * not check if the processor is online before following the pageset pointer.
+ * Other parts of the kernel may not check if the zone is available.
+ */
+static void setup_pageset(struct per_cpu_pageset *p, unsigned long batch);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct per_cpu_pageset, boot_pageset);
+
 /* return values int ....just for stop_machine() */
 static int __build_all_zonelists(void *dummy)
 {
 	int nid;
+	int cpu;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	memset(node_load, 0, sizeof(node_load));
@@ -2758,6 +2772,23 @@ static int __build_all_zonelists(void *dummy)
 		build_zonelists(pgdat);
 		build_zonelist_cache(pgdat);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Initialize the boot_pagesets that are going to be used
+	 * for bootstrapping processors. The real pagesets for
+	 * each zone will be allocated later when the per cpu
+	 * allocator is available.
+	 *
+	 * boot_pagesets are used also for bootstrapping offline
+	 * cpus if the system is already booted because the pagesets
+	 * are needed to initialize allocators on a specific cpu too.
+	 * F.e. the percpu allocator needs the page allocator which
+	 * needs the percpu allocator in order to allocate its pagesets
+	 * (a chicken-egg dilemma).
+	 */
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+		setup_pageset(&per_cpu(boot_pageset, cpu), 0);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -3095,121 +3126,33 @@ static void setup_pagelist_highmark(struct per_cpu_pageset *p,
 		pcp->batch = PAGE_SHIFT * 8;
 }
 
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 /*
- * Boot pageset table. One per cpu which is going to be used for all
- * zones and all nodes. The parameters will be set in such a way
- * that an item put on a list will immediately be handed over to
- * the buddy list. This is safe since pageset manipulation is done
- * with interrupts disabled.
- *
- * Some NUMA counter updates may also be caught by the boot pagesets.
- *
- * The boot_pagesets must be kept even after bootup is complete for
- * unused processors and/or zones. They do play a role for bootstrapping
- * hotplugged processors.
- *
- * zoneinfo_show() and maybe other functions do
- * not check if the processor is online before following the pageset pointer.
- * Other parts of the kernel may not check if the zone is available.
+ * Allocate per cpu pagesets and initialize them.
+ * Before this call only boot pagesets were available.
+ * Boot pagesets will no longer be used by this processorr
+ * after setup_per_cpu_pageset().
  */
-static struct per_cpu_pageset boot_pageset[NR_CPUS];
-
-/*
- * Dynamically allocate memory for the
- * per cpu pageset array in struct zone.
- */
-static int __cpuinit process_zones(int cpu)
-{
-	struct zone *zone, *dzone;
-	int node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
-
-	node_set_state(node, N_CPU);	/* this node has a cpu */
-
-	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
-		zone_pcp(zone, cpu) = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct per_cpu_pageset),
-					 GFP_KERNEL, node);
-		if (!zone_pcp(zone, cpu))
-			goto bad;
-
-		setup_pageset(zone_pcp(zone, cpu), zone_batchsize(zone));
-
-		if (percpu_pagelist_fraction)
-			setup_pagelist_highmark(zone_pcp(zone, cpu),
-			    (zone->present_pages / percpu_pagelist_fraction));
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-bad:
-	for_each_zone(dzone) {
-		if (!populated_zone(dzone))
-			continue;
-		if (dzone == zone)
-			break;
-		kfree(zone_pcp(dzone, cpu));
-		zone_pcp(dzone, cpu) = &boot_pageset[cpu];
-	}
-	return -ENOMEM;
-}
-
-static inline void free_zone_pagesets(int cpu)
-{
-	struct zone *zone;
-
-	for_each_zone(zone) {
-		struct per_cpu_pageset *pset = zone_pcp(zone, cpu);
-
-		/* Free per_cpu_pageset if it is slab allocated */
-		if (pset != &boot_pageset[cpu])
-			kfree(pset);
-		zone_pcp(zone, cpu) = &boot_pageset[cpu];
-	}
-}
-
-static int __cpuinit pageset_cpuup_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
-		unsigned long action,
-		void *hcpu)
-{
-	int cpu = (long)hcpu;
-	int ret = NOTIFY_OK;
-
-	switch (action) {
-	case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
-	case CPU_UP_PREPARE_FROZEN:
-		if (process_zones(cpu))
-			ret = NOTIFY_BAD;
-		break;
-	case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
-	case CPU_UP_CANCELED_FROZEN:
-	case CPU_DEAD:
-	case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
-		free_zone_pagesets(cpu);
-		break;
-	default:
-		break;
-	}
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata pageset_notifier =
-	{ &pageset_cpuup_callback, NULL, 0 };
-
 void __init setup_per_cpu_pageset(void)
 {
-	int err;
+	struct zone *zone;
+	int cpu;
 
-	/* Initialize per_cpu_pageset for cpu 0.
-	 * A cpuup callback will do this for every cpu
-	 * as it comes online
-	 */
-	err = process_zones(smp_processor_id());
-	BUG_ON(err);
-	register_cpu_notifier(&pageset_notifier);
+	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
+		zone->pageset = alloc_percpu(struct per_cpu_pageset);
+
+		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+			struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
+
+			setup_pageset(pcp, zone_batchsize(zone));
+
+			if (percpu_pagelist_fraction)
+				setup_pagelist_highmark(pcp,
+					(zone->present_pages /
+						percpu_pagelist_fraction));
+		}
+	}
 }
 
-#endif
-
 static noinline __init_refok
 int zone_wait_table_init(struct zone *zone, unsigned long zone_size_pages)
 {
@@ -3263,7 +3206,7 @@ static int __zone_pcp_update(void *data)
 		struct per_cpu_pageset *pset;
 		struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
 
-		pset = zone_pcp(zone, cpu);
+		pset = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
 		pcp = &pset->pcp;
 
 		local_irq_save(flags);
@@ -3281,21 +3224,17 @@ void zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone)
 
 static __meminit void zone_pcp_init(struct zone *zone)
 {
-	int cpu;
-	unsigned long batch = zone_batchsize(zone);
+	/*
+	 * per cpu subsystem is not up at this point. The following code
+	 * relies on the ability of the linker to provide the
+	 * offset of a (static) per cpu variable into the per cpu area.
+	 */
+	zone->pageset = &boot_pageset;
 
-	for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-		/* Early boot. Slab allocator not functional yet */
-		zone_pcp(zone, cpu) = &boot_pageset[cpu];
-		setup_pageset(&boot_pageset[cpu],0);
-#else
-		setup_pageset(zone_pcp(zone,cpu), batch);
-#endif
-	}
 	if (zone->present_pages)
-		printk(KERN_DEBUG "  %s zone: %lu pages, LIFO batch:%lu\n",
-			zone->name, zone->present_pages, batch);
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "  %s zone: %lu pages, LIFO batch:%u\n",
+			zone->name, zone->present_pages,
+					 zone_batchsize(zone));
 }
 
 __meminit int init_currently_empty_zone(struct zone *zone,
@@ -4809,10 +4748,11 @@ int percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
 	if (!write || (ret == -EINVAL))
 		return ret;
 	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
-		for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 			unsigned long  high;
 			high = zone->present_pages / percpu_pagelist_fraction;
-			setup_pagelist_highmark(zone_pcp(zone, cpu), high);
+			setup_pagelist_highmark(
+				per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu), high);
 		}
 	}
 	return 0;
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 6051fbab67ba..1ba0bb7ad043 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ static void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void)
 		threshold = calculate_threshold(zone);
 
 		for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
-			zone_pcp(zone, cpu)->stat_threshold = threshold;
+			per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->stat_threshold
+							= threshold;
 	}
 }
 
@@ -149,7 +150,8 @@ static void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void)
 void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
 				int delta)
 {
-	struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp = zone_pcp(zone, smp_processor_id());
+	struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp = this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset);
+
 	s8 *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
 	long x;
 
@@ -202,7 +204,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mod_zone_page_state);
  */
 void __inc_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item)
 {
-	struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp = zone_pcp(zone, smp_processor_id());
+	struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp = this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset);
 	s8 *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
 
 	(*p)++;
@@ -223,7 +225,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__inc_zone_page_state);
 
 void __dec_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item)
 {
-	struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp = zone_pcp(zone, smp_processor_id());
+	struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp = this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset);
 	s8 *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
 
 	(*p)--;
@@ -300,7 +302,7 @@ void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int cpu)
 	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
 		struct per_cpu_pageset *p;
 
-		p = zone_pcp(zone, cpu);
+		p = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
 
 		for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
 			if (p->vm_stat_diff[i]) {
@@ -741,7 +743,7 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat,
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
 		struct per_cpu_pageset *pageset;
 
-		pageset = zone_pcp(zone, i);
+		pageset = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, i);
 		seq_printf(m,
 			   "\n    cpu: %i"
 			   "\n              count: %i"