diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c80da801b234..bfcbb43fd7d9 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5471,6 +5471,30 @@ void __ref build_all_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 #endif
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
+/* Skip PFNs that belong to non-present sections */
+static inline __meminit unsigned long next_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	unsigned long section_nr;
+
+	section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(++pfn);
+	if (present_section_nr(section_nr))
+		return pfn;
+
+	while (++section_nr <= __highest_present_section_nr) {
+		if (present_section_nr(section_nr))
+			return section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr);
+	}
+
+	return -1;
+}
+#else
+static inline __meminit unsigned long next_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	return pfn++;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Initially all pages are reserved - free ones are freed
  * up by free_all_bootmem() once the early boot process is
@@ -5506,8 +5530,10 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
 		if (context != MEMMAP_EARLY)
 			goto not_early;
 
-		if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn))
+		if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
+			pfn = next_pfn(pfn) - 1;
 			continue;
+		}
 		if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid))
 			continue;
 		if (!update_defer_init(pgdat, pfn, end_pfn, &nr_initialised))