diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e95b5b7c9c3d..995d1079f958 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5542,18 +5542,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
 			cond_resched();
 		}
 	}
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
-	/*
-	 * If the zone does not span the rest of the section then
-	 * we should at least initialize those pages. Otherwise we
-	 * could blow up on a poisoned page in some paths which depend
-	 * on full sections being initialized (e.g. memory hotplug).
-	 */
-	while (end_pfn % PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
-		__init_single_page(pfn_to_page(end_pfn), end_pfn, zone, nid);
-		end_pfn++;
-	}
-#endif
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE