diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 2a78aae78c690b7897a6fbe835201a023a579a3c..027935c86c688df2315d7ea4862d2c8e233ab8aa 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ struct mm_struct {
 
 	struct linux_binfmt *binfmt;
 
+	cpumask_var_t cpu_vm_mask_var;
+
 	/* Architecture-specific MM context */
 	mm_context_t context;
 
@@ -311,10 +313,18 @@ struct mm_struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 	pgtable_t pmd_huge_pte; /* protected by page_table_lock */
 #endif
-
-	cpumask_var_t cpu_vm_mask_var;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
+	struct cpumask cpumask_allocation;
+#endif
 };
 
+static inline void mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
+	mm->cpu_vm_mask_var = &mm->cpumask_allocation;
+#endif
+}
+
 /* Future-safe accessor for struct mm_struct's cpu_vm_mask. */
 static inline cpumask_t *mm_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index bcddd01381050852b856b3144bdc054f0c79204a..2a8621c4be1e36d6e713f1b30e51cc607f8b4e02 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2194,7 +2194,6 @@ static inline void mmdrop(struct mm_struct * mm)
 	if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(&mm->mm_count)))
 		__mmdrop(mm);
 }
-extern int mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm);
 
 /* mmput gets rid of the mappings and all user-space */
 extern void mmput(struct mm_struct *);
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index d2f1e086bf337d064aaeef6baa0865ca6ba5fd31..cafba67c13bf8b57493e49b0501ef4265e76204b 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
 	printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s", linux_banner);
 	setup_arch(&command_line);
 	mm_init_owner(&init_mm, &init_task);
+	mm_init_cpumask(&init_mm);
 	setup_command_line(command_line);
 	setup_nr_cpu_ids();
 	setup_per_cpu_areas();
@@ -510,7 +511,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
 	sort_main_extable();
 	trap_init();
 	mm_init();
-	BUG_ON(mm_init_cpumask(&init_mm, 0));
 
 	/*
 	 * Set up the scheduler prior starting any interrupts (such as the
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ca406d916713696c66e2a47b60cfd5d7a615f711..0276c30401a081132d1e4fadac663f3afdf292c0 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -484,20 +484,6 @@ static void mm_init_aio(struct mm_struct *mm)
 #endif
 }
 
-int mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
-	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&mm->cpu_vm_mask_var, GFP_KERNEL))
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	if (oldmm)
-		cpumask_copy(mm_cpumask(mm), mm_cpumask(oldmm));
-	else
-		memset(mm_cpumask(mm), 0, cpumask_size());
-#endif
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static struct mm_struct * mm_init(struct mm_struct * mm, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	atomic_set(&mm->mm_users, 1);
@@ -538,17 +524,8 @@ struct mm_struct * mm_alloc(void)
 		return NULL;
 
 	memset(mm, 0, sizeof(*mm));
-	mm = mm_init(mm, current);
-	if (!mm)
-		return NULL;
-
-	if (mm_init_cpumask(mm, NULL)) {
-		mm_free_pgd(mm);
-		free_mm(mm);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
-	return mm;
+	mm_init_cpumask(mm);
+	return mm_init(mm, current);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -559,7 +536,6 @@ struct mm_struct * mm_alloc(void)
 void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	BUG_ON(mm == &init_mm);
-	free_cpumask_var(mm->cpu_vm_mask_var);
 	mm_free_pgd(mm);
 	destroy_context(mm);
 	mmu_notifier_mm_destroy(mm);
@@ -753,6 +729,7 @@ struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
 		goto fail_nomem;
 
 	memcpy(mm, oldmm, sizeof(*mm));
+	mm_init_cpumask(mm);
 
 	/* Initializing for Swap token stuff */
 	mm->token_priority = 0;
@@ -765,9 +742,6 @@ struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (!mm_init(mm, tsk))
 		goto fail_nomem;
 
-	if (mm_init_cpumask(mm, oldmm))
-		goto fail_nocpumask;
-
 	if (init_new_context(tsk, mm))
 		goto fail_nocontext;
 
@@ -794,9 +768,6 @@ struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	return NULL;
 
 fail_nocontext:
-	free_cpumask_var(mm->cpu_vm_mask_var);
-
-fail_nocpumask:
 	/*
 	 * If init_new_context() failed, we cannot use mmput() to free the mm
 	 * because it calls destroy_context()
@@ -1591,6 +1562,13 @@ void __init proc_caches_init(void)
 	fs_cachep = kmem_cache_create("fs_cache",
 			sizeof(struct fs_struct), 0,
 			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_NOTRACK, NULL);
+	/*
+	 * FIXME! The "sizeof(struct mm_struct)" currently includes the
+	 * whole struct cpumask for the OFFSTACK case. We could change
+	 * this to *only* allocate as much of it as required by the
+	 * maximum number of CPU's we can ever have.  The cpumask_allocation
+	 * is at the end of the structure, exactly for that reason.
+	 */
 	mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create("mm_struct",
 			sizeof(struct mm_struct), ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
 			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_NOTRACK, NULL);