diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 0016ebd..3aa819d 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -143,6 +143,18 @@
 	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
 	depends on MIGRATION
 
+#
+# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
+# optimizations and functionality.
+#
+# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
+# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
+# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
+#
+config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
+	def_bool y
+	depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !NUMA || !SPARSEMEM
+
 # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
 # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
 # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.