diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 997c6345cdd653f1b0e01f895041a2451c131691..a398eb9018bbbe3f80048be489f5a1d02653095f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -197,14 +197,6 @@ void __init bootmem_init(void)
 	max_pfn = max_low_pfn = max;
 }
 
-/*
- * Poison init memory with an undefined instruction (0x0).
- */
-static inline void poison_init_mem(void *s, size_t count)
-{
-	memset(s, 0, count);
-}
-
 #ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
 static inline void free_memmap(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
@@ -386,8 +378,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 
 void free_initmem(void)
 {
-	poison_init_mem(__init_begin, __init_end - __init_begin);
-	free_initmem_default(-1);
+	free_initmem_default(0);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
@@ -396,10 +387,8 @@ static int keep_initrd;
 
 void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
-	if (!keep_initrd) {
-		poison_init_mem((void *)start, PAGE_ALIGN(end) - start);
-		free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, -1, "initrd");
-	}
+	if (!keep_initrd)
+		free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, 0, "initrd");
 }
 
 static int __init keepinitrd_setup(char *__unused)