diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 847705a6d0ec2dba2a82ca87bba54c797bb0b956..db023a92f3a4a814d30927af066411ac5532270f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -783,6 +783,12 @@ void memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 static inline void memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) {}
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM)
+void memblocks_present(void);
+#else
+static inline void memblocks_present(void) {}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES
 int local_memory_node(int node_id);
 #else
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 33307fc05c4d3372d5e4746116330532765e61d7..3abc8cc5020120a3bbeb7c3429d19472fc96d051 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -239,6 +239,22 @@ void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * Mark all memblocks as present using memory_present(). This is a
+ * convienence function that is useful for a number of arches
+ * to mark all of the systems memory as present during initialization.
+ */
+void __init memblocks_present(void)
+{
+	struct memblock_region *reg;
+
+	for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
+		memory_present(memblock_get_region_node(reg),
+			       memblock_region_memory_base_pfn(reg),
+			       memblock_region_memory_end_pfn(reg));
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Subtle, we encode the real pfn into the mem_map such that
  * the identity pfn - section_mem_map will return the actual