diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/discontig.c b/arch/i386/mm/discontig.c
index dcc71f969b01..088ca4722183 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mm/discontig.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/discontig.c
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ static unsigned long calculate_numa_remap_pages(void)
 {
 	int nid;
 	unsigned long size, reserve_pages = 0;
+	unsigned long pfn;
 
 	for_each_online_node(nid) {
 		/*
@@ -234,6 +235,19 @@ static unsigned long calculate_numa_remap_pages(void)
 		size = (size + LARGE_PAGE_BYTES - 1) / LARGE_PAGE_BYTES;
 		/* now the roundup is correct, convert to PAGE_SIZE pages */
 		size = size * PTRS_PER_PTE;
+
+		/*
+		 * Validate the region we are allocating only contains valid
+		 * pages.
+		 */
+		for (pfn = node_end_pfn[nid] - size;
+		     pfn < node_end_pfn[nid]; pfn++)
+			if (!page_is_ram(pfn))
+				break;
+
+		if (pfn != node_end_pfn[nid])
+			size = 0;
+
 		printk("Reserving %ld pages of KVA for lmem_map of node %d\n",
 				size, nid);
 		node_remap_size[nid] = size;
diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/init.c b/arch/i386/mm/init.c
index 8766c771bb45..666ca79fb50a 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/init.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static inline int page_kills_ppro(unsigned long pagenr)
 
 extern int is_available_memory(efi_memory_desc_t *);
 
-static inline int page_is_ram(unsigned long pagenr)
+int page_is_ram(unsigned long pagenr)
 {
 	int i;
 	unsigned long addr, end;
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/page.h b/include/asm-i386/page.h
index 41400d342d44..8f3dded01bff 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/page.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/page.h
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ static __inline__ int get_order(unsigned long size)
 
 extern int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
 
+extern int page_is_ram(unsigned long pagenr);
+
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__