diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index 74d9bf9dddaab94c338c28785ad94a971b6e8138..5dff2c0d56b9139061912d310ed152a4d61ffd83 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -293,17 +293,14 @@ static int memory_subsys_online(struct device *dev)
 		return 0;
 
 	/*
-	 * If we are called from state_store(), online_type will be
-	 * set >= 0 Otherwise we were called from the device online
-	 * attribute and need to set the online_type.
+	 * When called via device_online() without configuring the online_type,
+	 * we want to default to MMOP_ONLINE.
 	 */
-	if (mem->online_type < 0)
+	if (mem->online_type == MMOP_OFFLINE)
 		mem->online_type = MMOP_ONLINE;
 
 	ret = memory_block_change_state(mem, MEM_ONLINE, MEM_OFFLINE);
-
-	/* clear online_type */
-	mem->online_type = -1;
+	mem->online_type = MMOP_OFFLINE;
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 09a05938576a39dc292a33b9ed2d02e7d9ef580a..dfb5d5b6f1063eca29065dc0e0ed198633278fac 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ enum {
 /* Types for control the zone type of onlined and offlined memory */
 enum {
 	/* Offline the memory. */
-	MMOP_OFFLINE = -1,
+	MMOP_OFFLINE = 0,
 	/* Online the memory. Zone depends, see default_zone_for_pfn(). */
 	MMOP_ONLINE,
 	/* Online the memory to ZONE_NORMAL. */