diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
index cbb82ee..35c3229 100644
--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -296,20 +296,12 @@
 		unsigned long v = ~map[i / BITS_PER_LONG];
 
 		if (gofast && v == ~0UL) {
-			int j, order;
+			int order;
 
 			page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
 			count += BITS_PER_LONG;
-			__ClearPageReserved(page);
 			order = ffs(BITS_PER_LONG) - 1;
-			set_page_refs(page, order);
-			for (j = 1; j < BITS_PER_LONG; j++) {
-				if (j + 16 < BITS_PER_LONG)
-					prefetchw(page + j + 16);
-				__ClearPageReserved(page + j);
-				set_page_count(page + j, 0);
-			}
-			__free_pages(page, order);
+			__free_pages_bootmem(page, order);
 			i += BITS_PER_LONG;
 			page += BITS_PER_LONG;
 		} else if (v) {
@@ -319,9 +311,7 @@
 			for (m = 1; m && i < idx; m<<=1, page++, i++) {
 				if (v & m) {
 					count++;
-					__ClearPageReserved(page);
-					set_page_refs(page, 0);
-					__free_page(page);
+					__free_pages_bootmem(page, 0);
 				}
 			}
 		} else {
@@ -339,9 +329,7 @@
 	count = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < ((bdata->node_low_pfn-(bdata->node_boot_start >> PAGE_SHIFT))/8 + PAGE_SIZE-1)/PAGE_SIZE; i++,page++) {
 		count++;
-		__ClearPageReserved(page);
-		set_page_count(page, 1);
-		__free_page(page);
+		__free_pages_bootmem(page, 0);
 	}
 	total += count;
 	bdata->node_bootmem_map = NULL;
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 85004f5..17256bb 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -26,3 +26,5 @@
 #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
 }
 
+extern void fastcall __init __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page,
+						unsigned int order);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 925b0b9..cdad324 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
 unsigned long totalhigh_pages __read_mostly;
 long nr_swap_pages;
 
+static void fastcall free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold);
+
 /*
  * results with 256, 32 in the lowmem_reserve sysctl:
  *	1G machine -> (16M dma, 800M-16M normal, 1G-800M high)
@@ -432,6 +434,39 @@
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
+/*
+ * permit the bootmem allocator to evade page validation on high-order frees
+ */
+void fastcall __init __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+	if (order == 0) {
+		__ClearPageReserved(page);
+		set_page_count(page, 0);
+
+		free_hot_cold_page(page, 0);
+	} else {
+		LIST_HEAD(list);
+		int loop;
+
+		for (loop = 0; loop < BITS_PER_LONG; loop++) {
+			struct page *p = &page[loop];
+
+			if (loop + 16 < BITS_PER_LONG)
+				prefetchw(p + 16);
+			__ClearPageReserved(p);
+			set_page_count(p, 0);
+		}
+
+		arch_free_page(page, order);
+
+		mod_page_state(pgfree, 1 << order);
+
+		list_add(&page->lru, &list);
+		kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 0);
+		free_pages_bulk(page_zone(page), 1, &list, order);
+	}
+}
+
 
 /*
  * The order of subdivision here is critical for the IO subsystem.
@@ -671,7 +706,6 @@
 /*
  * Free a 0-order page
  */
-static void FASTCALL(free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold));
 static void fastcall free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
 {
 	struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);