diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index fc39f85d273c70ae6db85536fda69cc869856671..976a1202bec113a47519b106ba0926787afe2d4a 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ enum memmap_context {
 	MEMMAP_EARLY,
 	MEMMAP_HOTPLUG,
 };
-extern int init_currently_empty_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
+extern void init_currently_empty_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 				     unsigned long size);
 
 extern void lruvec_init(struct lruvec *lruvec);
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index b63d7d1239df22714da632e191ce4d03049daeb0..b93c88125766ad90a95023a664bb404886f08b97 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -348,27 +348,20 @@ static void fix_zone_id(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 		set_page_links(pfn_to_page(pfn), zid, nid, pfn);
 }
 
-/* Can fail with -ENOMEM from allocating a wait table with vmalloc() or
- * alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic()/memblock_virt_alloc_node_nopanic() */
-static int __ref ensure_zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone,
+static void __ref ensure_zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone,
 			unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long num_pages)
 {
 	if (!zone_is_initialized(zone))
-		return init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, num_pages);
-
-	return 0;
+		init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, num_pages);
 }
 
 static int __meminit move_pfn_range_left(struct zone *z1, struct zone *z2,
 		unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
-	int ret;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned long z1_start_pfn;
 
-	ret = ensure_zone_is_initialized(z1, start_pfn, end_pfn - start_pfn);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	ensure_zone_is_initialized(z1, start_pfn, end_pfn - start_pfn);
 
 	pgdat_resize_lock(z1->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 
@@ -404,13 +397,10 @@ static int __meminit move_pfn_range_left(struct zone *z1, struct zone *z2,
 static int __meminit move_pfn_range_right(struct zone *z1, struct zone *z2,
 		unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
-	int ret;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned long z2_end_pfn;
 
-	ret = ensure_zone_is_initialized(z2, start_pfn, end_pfn - start_pfn);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	ensure_zone_is_initialized(z2, start_pfn, end_pfn - start_pfn);
 
 	pgdat_resize_lock(z1->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 
@@ -481,12 +471,9 @@ static int __meminit __add_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn)
 	int nid = pgdat->node_id;
 	int zone_type;
 	unsigned long flags, pfn;
-	int ret;
 
 	zone_type = zone - pgdat->node_zones;
-	ret = ensure_zone_is_initialized(zone, phys_start_pfn, nr_pages);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	ensure_zone_is_initialized(zone, phys_start_pfn, nr_pages);
 
 	pgdat_resize_lock(zone->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 	grow_zone_span(zone, phys_start_pfn, phys_start_pfn + nr_pages);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2302f250d6b1ba150e3c2e4e17cfb6c99574ab5b..73f854344735e1bfe4e21fab0b1711dc90b9168d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5528,7 +5528,7 @@ static __meminit void zone_pcp_init(struct zone *zone)
 					 zone_batchsize(zone));
 }
 
-int __meminit init_currently_empty_zone(struct zone *zone,
+void __meminit init_currently_empty_zone(struct zone *zone,
 					unsigned long zone_start_pfn,
 					unsigned long size)
 {
@@ -5546,8 +5546,6 @@ int __meminit init_currently_empty_zone(struct zone *zone,
 
 	zone_init_free_lists(zone);
 	zone->initialized = 1;
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
@@ -6005,7 +6003,6 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 {
 	enum zone_type j;
 	int nid = pgdat->node_id;
-	int ret;
 
 	pgdat_resize_init(pgdat);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
@@ -6087,8 +6084,7 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 
 		set_pageblock_order();
 		setup_usemap(pgdat, zone, zone_start_pfn, size);
-		ret = init_currently_empty_zone(zone, zone_start_pfn, size);
-		BUG_ON(ret);
+		init_currently_empty_zone(zone, zone_start_pfn, size);
 		memmap_init(size, nid, j, zone_start_pfn);
 	}
 }