diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 067a97647c6b65..a35add8d7c0b77 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5149,6 +5149,7 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
  */
 static void setup_pageset(struct per_cpu_pageset *p, unsigned long batch);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct per_cpu_pageset, boot_pageset);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct per_cpu_nodestat, boot_nodestats);
 static void setup_zone_pageset(struct zone *zone);
 
 /*
@@ -6049,6 +6050,8 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 	spin_lock_init(&pgdat->lru_lock);
 	lruvec_init(node_lruvec(pgdat));
 
+	pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats = &boot_nodestats;
+
 	for (j = 0; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) {
 		struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + j;
 		unsigned long size, realsize, freesize, memmap_pages;