diff --git a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
index 7339c7b..13f126c 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
@@ -18,7 +18,19 @@
 };
 
 void __meminit pgdat_page_cgroup_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
-void __init page_cgroup_init(void);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
+static inline void __init page_cgroup_init_flatmem(void)
+{
+}
+extern void __init page_cgroup_init(void);
+#else
+void __init page_cgroup_init_flatmem(void);
+static inline void __init page_cgroup_init(void)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page *page);
 
 enum {
@@ -87,6 +99,10 @@
 {
 }
 
+static inline void __init page_cgroup_init_flatmem(void)
+{
+}
+
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 5616661..b3e8f14 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -539,6 +539,11 @@
  */
 static void __init mm_init(void)
 {
+	/*
+	 * page_cgroup requires countinous pages as memmap
+	 * and it's bigger than MAX_ORDER unless SPARSEMEM.
+	 */
+	page_cgroup_init_flatmem();
 	mem_init();
 	kmem_cache_init();
 	vmalloc_init();
diff --git a/mm/page_cgroup.c b/mm/page_cgroup.c
index 3dd4a90..11a8a10 100644
--- a/mm/page_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/page_cgroup.c
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@
 	struct page_cgroup *base, *pc;
 	unsigned long table_size;
 	unsigned long start_pfn, nr_pages, index;
-	struct page *page;
-	unsigned int order;
 
 	start_pfn = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_start_pfn;
 	nr_pages = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_spanned_pages;
@@ -57,13 +55,11 @@
 		return 0;
 
 	table_size = sizeof(struct page_cgroup) * nr_pages;
-	order = get_order(table_size);
-	page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ZERO, order);
-	if (!page)
-		page = alloc_pages_node(-1, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ZERO, order);
-	if (!page)
+
+	base = __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(NODE_DATA(nid),
+			table_size, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
+	if (!base)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	base = page_address(page);
 	for (index = 0; index < nr_pages; index++) {
 		pc = base + index;
 		__init_page_cgroup(pc, start_pfn + index);
@@ -73,7 +69,7 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-void __init page_cgroup_init(void)
+void __init page_cgroup_init_flatmem(void)
 {
 
 	int nid, fail;
@@ -117,16 +113,11 @@
 	if (!section->page_cgroup) {
 		nid = page_to_nid(pfn_to_page(pfn));
 		table_size = sizeof(struct page_cgroup) * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
-		if (slab_is_available()) {
-			base = kmalloc_node(table_size,
-					GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, nid);
-			if (!base)
-				base = vmalloc_node(table_size, nid);
-		} else {
-			base = __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(NODE_DATA(nid),
-				table_size,
-				PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
-		}
+		VM_BUG_ON(!slab_is_available());
+		base = kmalloc_node(table_size,
+				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, nid);
+		if (!base)
+			base = vmalloc_node(table_size, nid);
 	} else {
 		/*
  		 * We don't have to allocate page_cgroup again, but