diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 82fed4e..d5c8019 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -140,9 +140,13 @@
 config NO_BOOTMEM
 	boolean
 
+config MEMORY_ISOLATION
+	boolean
+
 # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
 config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 	bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
+	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
 	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
 	depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 	depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
@@ -272,6 +276,7 @@
 	depends on MMU
 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
 	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
+	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
 	help
 	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
 	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running