diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
index bd33be24a386..79190891fbc5 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
 	int i;
 	unsigned long size;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+	prefill_possible_map();
+#endif
+
 	/* Copy section for each CPU (we discard the original) */
 	size = ALIGN(__per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
index e12d7baeb33e..658a81b33f3b 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static __init void disable_smp(void)
  * those NR_CPUS, hence cpu_possible_map represents entire NR_CPUS range.
  * - Ashok Raj
  */
-static void prefill_possible_map(void)
+__init void prefill_possible_map(void)
 {
 	int i;
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++)
@@ -967,10 +967,6 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
 	current_cpu_data = boot_cpu_data;
 	current_thread_info()->cpu = 0;  /* needed? */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-	prefill_possible_map();
-#endif
-
 	if (smp_sanity_check(max_cpus) < 0) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "SMP disabled\n");
 		disable_smp();
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/smp.h b/include/asm-x86_64/smp.h
index 24e32611f0bf..c57ce4071342 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/smp.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/smp.h
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static inline int hard_smp_processor_id(void)
 extern int safe_smp_processor_id(void);
 extern int __cpu_disable(void);
 extern void __cpu_die(unsigned int cpu);
+extern void prefill_possible_map(void);
 
 #endif /* !ASSEMBLY */