diff --git a/include/linux/memory-tiers.h b/include/linux/memory-tiers.h
index 341ba8082e05..0bdd5955a5e2 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory-tiers.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory-tiers.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ void clear_node_memory_type(int node, struct memory_dev_type *memtype);
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 int next_demotion_node(int node);
 void node_get_allowed_targets(pg_data_t *pgdat, nodemask_t *targets);
+bool node_is_toptier(int node);
 #else
 static inline int next_demotion_node(int node)
 {
@@ -45,6 +46,11 @@ static inline void node_get_allowed_targets(pg_data_t *pgdat, nodemask_t *target
 {
 	*targets = NODE_MASK_NONE;
 }
+
+static inline bool node_is_toptier(int node)
+{
+	return true;
+}
 #endif
 
 #else
@@ -69,5 +75,10 @@ static inline void node_get_allowed_targets(pg_data_t *pgdat, nodemask_t *target
 {
 	*targets = NODE_MASK_NONE;
 }
+
+static inline bool node_is_toptier(int node)
+{
+	return true;
+}
 #endif	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
 #endif  /* _LINUX_MEMORY_TIERS_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/node.h b/include/linux/node.h
index 40d641a8bfb0..9ec680dd607f 100644
--- a/include/linux/node.h
+++ b/include/linux/node.h
@@ -185,9 +185,4 @@ static inline void register_hugetlbfs_with_node(node_registration_func_t reg,
 
 #define to_node(device) container_of(device, struct node, dev)
 
-static inline bool node_is_toptier(int node)
-{
-	return node_state(node, N_CPU);
-}
-
 #endif /* _LINUX_NODE_H_ */
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 15965084816d..524498061e7c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <linux/numa.h>
 #include <linux/page_owner.h>
 #include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
+#include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
diff --git a/mm/memory-tiers.c b/mm/memory-tiers.c
index 925d7168e825..ea5c04f62170 100644
--- a/mm/memory-tiers.c
+++ b/mm/memory-tiers.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(memory_tiers);
 static struct memory_dev_type *node_memory_types[MAX_NUMNODES];
 static struct memory_dev_type *default_dram_type;
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
+static int top_tier_adistance;
 /*
  * node_demotion[] examples:
  *
@@ -154,6 +155,31 @@ static struct memory_tier *__node_get_memory_tier(int node)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
+bool node_is_toptier(int node)
+{
+	bool toptier;
+	pg_data_t *pgdat;
+	struct memory_tier *memtier;
+
+	pgdat = NODE_DATA(node);
+	if (!pgdat)
+		return false;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	memtier = rcu_dereference(pgdat->memtier);
+	if (!memtier) {
+		toptier = true;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	if (memtier->adistance_start < top_tier_adistance)
+		toptier = true;
+	else
+		toptier = false;
+out:
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	return toptier;
+}
+
 void node_get_allowed_targets(pg_data_t *pgdat, nodemask_t *targets)
 {
 	struct memory_tier *memtier;
@@ -311,6 +337,26 @@ static void establish_demotion_targets(void)
 			}
 		} while (1);
 	}
+	/*
+	 * Promotion is allowed from a memory tier to higher
+	 * memory tier only if the memory tier doesn't include
+	 * compute. We want to skip promotion from a memory tier,
+	 * if any node that is part of the memory tier have CPUs.
+	 * Once we detect such a memory tier, we consider that tier
+	 * as top tiper from which promotion is not allowed.
+	 */
+	list_for_each_entry_reverse(memtier, &memory_tiers, list) {
+		tier_nodes = get_memtier_nodemask(memtier);
+		nodes_and(tier_nodes, node_states[N_CPU], tier_nodes);
+		if (!nodes_empty(tier_nodes)) {
+			/*
+			 * abstract distance below the max value of this memtier
+			 * is considered toptier.
+			 */
+			top_tier_adistance = memtier->adistance_start + MEMTIER_CHUNK_SIZE;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
 	/*
 	 * Now build the lower_tier mask for each node collecting node mask from
 	 * all memory tier below it. This allows us to fallback demotion page
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 45290ddd3806..e7f3f52596c1 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #include <linux/memory.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
+#include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index ba5592655ee3..92a2fc0fa88b 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/pgtable.h>
 #include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
 #include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
+#include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
