diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index e42727e3568e..a650adb358ee 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(unsigned long min, unsigned long max)
 #endif
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max;
 
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 }
 
 #else
diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c b/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c
index 5b00dc3898e1..8786fa5c7612 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c
@@ -210,6 +210,6 @@ paging_init (void)
 		printk("Virtual mem_map starts at 0x%p\n", mem_map);
 	}
 #endif /* !CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP */
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 	zero_page_memmap_ptr = virt_to_page(ia64_imva(empty_zero_page));
 }
diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c b/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
index 4f33f6e7e206..dd8284bcbf16 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA32] = max_dma;
 #endif
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_pfn;
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 
 	zero_page_memmap_ptr = virt_to_page(ia64_imva(empty_zero_page));
 }
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/mm/init.c b/arch/microblaze/mm/init.c
index 1ffbfa96b9b8..dcaa53d11339 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/microblaze/mm/init.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void __init paging_init(void)
 #endif
 
 	/* We don't have holes in memory map */
-	free_area_init_nodes(zones_size);
+	free_area_init(zones_size);
 }
 
 void __init setup_memory(void)
diff --git a/arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c b/arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c
index 1ae072df4831..901f5be5ee76 100644
--- a/arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c
+++ b/arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 	zones_size[ZONE_DMA32] = MAX_DMA32_PFN;
 #endif
 	zones_size[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn;
-	free_area_init_nodes(zones_size);
+	free_area_init(zones_size);
 }
 
 void __init mem_init(void)
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/init.c b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
index 79684000de0e..19719e8b41a5 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c
index a45691e6ab90..1213215ea965 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c
+++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 
 	pagetable_init();
 	zones_size[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn;
-	free_area_init_nodes(zones_size);
+	free_area_init(zones_size);
 }
 
 void __init mem_init(void)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 041ed7cfd341..0fcea21f26b4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = max_pfn;
 #endif
 
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 
 	mark_nonram_nosave();
 }
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index b55be44ff9bd..f2ceab77b8e6 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
 #endif
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn;
 
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 }
 
 static void setup_zero_page(void)
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/init.c b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
index 87b2d024e75a..b11bcf4da531 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 	memset(max_zone_pfns, 0, sizeof(max_zone_pfns));
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = PFN_DOWN(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS);
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn;
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 }
 
 void mark_rodata_ro(void)
diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/init.c b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
index b9de2d4fa57e..2573b163b3ab 100644
--- a/arch/sh/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 
 	memset(max_zone_pfns, 0, sizeof(max_zone_pfns));
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn;
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 }
 
 unsigned int mem_init_done = 0;
diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
index 1cf0d666dea3..79d3c5e0802e 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -2488,7 +2488,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 
 		max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = end_pfn;
 
-		free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+		free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 	}
 
 	printk("Booting Linux...\n");
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 1bba16c5742b..4016f2bf5d87 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
 	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_HIGHMEM]	= max_pfn;
 #endif
 
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
 }
 
 __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate) = {
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index d9a256a97ac5..1c2ecb42e043 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2272,7 +2272,6 @@ static inline spinlock_t *pud_lock(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud)
 }
 
 extern void __init pagecache_init(void);
-extern void free_area_init(unsigned long * max_zone_pfn);
 extern void __init free_area_init_node(int nid, unsigned long * zones_size,
 		unsigned long zone_start_pfn, unsigned long *zholes_size);
 extern void free_initmem(void);
@@ -2353,21 +2352,21 @@ static inline unsigned long get_num_physpages(void)
  *
  * An architecture is expected to register range of page frames backed by
  * physical memory with memblock_add[_node]() before calling
- * free_area_init_nodes() passing in the PFN each zone ends at. At a basic
+ * free_area_init() passing in the PFN each zone ends at. At a basic
  * usage, an architecture is expected to do something like
  *
  * unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {max_dma, max_normal_pfn,
  * 							 max_highmem_pfn};
  * for_each_valid_physical_page_range()
  * 	memblock_add_node(base, size, nid)
- * free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
+ * free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
  *
  * free_bootmem_with_active_regions() calls free_bootmem_node() for each
  * registered physical page range.  Similarly
  * sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions() calls memory_present() for
  * each range when SPARSEMEM is enabled.
  */
-extern void free_area_init_nodes(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn);
+void free_area_init(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn);
 unsigned long node_map_pfn_alignment(void);
 unsigned long __absent_pages_in_range(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
 						unsigned long end_pfn);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 530701b38bc7..7f6a3081edb8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7428,7 +7428,7 @@ static void check_for_memory(pg_data_t *pgdat, int nid)
 }
 
 /**
- * free_area_init_nodes - Initialise all pg_data_t and zone data
+ * free_area_init - Initialise all pg_data_t and zone data
  * @max_zone_pfn: an array of max PFNs for each zone
  *
  * This will call free_area_init_node() for each active node in the system.
@@ -7440,7 +7440,7 @@ static void check_for_memory(pg_data_t *pgdat, int nid)
  * starts where the previous one ended. For example, ZONE_DMA32 starts
  * at arch_max_dma_pfn.
  */
-void __init free_area_init_nodes(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
+void __init free_area_init(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
 {
 	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
 	int i, nid;
@@ -7700,12 +7700,6 @@ void __init set_dma_reserve(unsigned long new_dma_reserve)
 	dma_reserve = new_dma_reserve;
 }
 
-void __init free_area_init(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
-{
-	init_unavailable_mem();
-	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfn);
-}
-
 static int page_alloc_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 
