diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index a044a130405b295158bd5fd476aaea36127e3a8f..a2cbe44c48e10f2257503dfdcc3026c5622a4b50 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifndef vmemmap_populate_compound_pages
 /*
  * For compound pages bigger than section size (e.g. x86 1G compound
  * pages with 2M subsection size) fill the rest of sections as tail
@@ -446,6 +447,8 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#endif
+
 struct page * __meminit __populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
 		unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
 		struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)