diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 9c30acfadae24757cca11f00513d089e488da78d..32e5699eadfee52043a3028e2040a00ea2cc3375 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -265,9 +265,8 @@ int __die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs, long err)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	printk("SMP ");
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
-	printk("DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ");
-#endif
+	if (debug_pagealloc_enabled())
+		printk("DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ");
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
 	printk("KASAN");
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 493f54172b4a5c90b1596708f1d5cb2a0f15156c..39823fd91396942f61de855598a7d5b8c77bedf8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -150,13 +150,14 @@ static int page_size_mask;
 
 static void __init probe_page_size_mask(void)
 {
-#if !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) && !defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK)
+#if !defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK)
 	/*
-	 * For CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, identity mapping will use small pages.
+	 * For CONFIG_KMEMCHECK or pagealloc debugging, identity mapping will
+	 * use small pages.
 	 * This will simplify cpa(), which otherwise needs to support splitting
 	 * large pages into small in interrupt context, etc.
 	 */
-	if (cpu_has_pse)
+	if (cpu_has_pse && !debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 		page_size_mask |= 1 << PG_LEVEL_2M;
 #endif
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 1c37e650acacff422460b1d9b705a867e01a09a5..e64a4703f8b12ef3b602dc8131ac52d8c6c7f8e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -106,12 +106,6 @@ static inline unsigned long highmap_end_pfn(void)
 
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
-# define debug_pagealloc 1
-#else
-# define debug_pagealloc 0
-#endif
-
 static inline int
 within(unsigned long addr, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
@@ -714,10 +708,10 @@ static int split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte,
 {
 	struct page *base;
 
-	if (!debug_pagealloc)
+	if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 		spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
 	base = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK, 0);
-	if (!debug_pagealloc)
+	if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 		spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
 	if (!base)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1337,10 +1331,10 @@ static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int checkalias)
 		if (cpa->flags & (CPA_ARRAY | CPA_PAGES_ARRAY))
 			cpa->numpages = 1;
 
-		if (!debug_pagealloc)
+		if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 			spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
 		ret = __change_page_attr(cpa, checkalias);
-		if (!debug_pagealloc)
+		if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 			spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;