diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index b2c17f62cacbf169742a69509adf31e82639cb21..9a71d4cc88c8f399c63109a21a5dcc5ec9847270 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ void hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long offset, long freed);
 extern unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
 extern const unsigned long hugetlb_zero, hugetlb_infinity;
 extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;
+extern struct list_head huge_boot_pages;
 
 /* arch callbacks */
 
@@ -188,6 +189,14 @@ struct hstate {
 	char name[HSTATE_NAME_LEN];
 };
 
+struct huge_bootmem_page {
+	struct list_head list;
+	struct hstate *hstate;
+};
+
+/* arch callback */
+int __init alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h);
+
 void __init hugetlb_add_hstate(unsigned order);
 struct hstate *size_to_hstate(unsigned long size);
 
@@ -256,6 +265,7 @@ static inline struct hstate *page_hstate(struct page *page)
 
 #else
 struct hstate {};
+#define alloc_bootmem_huge_page(h) NULL
 #define hstate_file(f) NULL
 #define hstate_vma(v) NULL
 #define hstate_inode(i) NULL
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 2a2f6e869401c8cbcd1b7f0a4763a047a0194f88..3e1506b808a36782a030cc8bf5ae23afa9265295 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ static int max_hstate;
 unsigned int default_hstate_idx;
 struct hstate hstates[HUGE_MAX_HSTATE];
 
+__initdata LIST_HEAD(huge_boot_pages);
+
 /* for command line parsing */
 static struct hstate * __initdata parsed_hstate;
 static unsigned long __initdata default_hstate_max_huge_pages;
@@ -925,14 +927,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return page;
 }
 
-static __initdata LIST_HEAD(huge_boot_pages);
-
-struct huge_bootmem_page {
-	struct list_head list;
-	struct hstate *hstate;
-};
-
-static int __init alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
+__attribute__((weak)) int alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
 {
 	struct huge_bootmem_page *m;
 	int nr_nodes = nodes_weight(node_online_map);