diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 6eb1fb37de9a..5e7219dc0fae 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ extern unsigned long get_zeroed_page(gfp_t gfp_mask);
 void *alloc_pages_exact(size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask);
 void free_pages_exact(void *virt, size_t size);
 /* This is different from alloc_pages_exact_node !!! */
-void *alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+void * __meminit alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask);
 
 #define __get_free_page(gfp_mask) \
 		__get_free_pages((gfp_mask), 0)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ef44ad736ca1..fd4322cc096d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2962,7 +2962,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_exact);
  * Note this is not alloc_pages_exact_node() which allocates on a specific node,
  * but is not exact.
  */
-void *alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+void * __meminit alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	unsigned order = get_order(size);
 	struct page *p = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, order);