diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
index dca58fb39b08..7b03d2090c28 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ bootmem_data_t plat_node_bdata[MAX_NUMNODES];
 
 struct memnode memnode;
 
-u16 x86_cpu_to_node_map_init[NR_CPUS] __initdata = {
+u16 x86_cpu_to_node_map_init[NR_CPUS] = {
 	[0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = NUMA_NO_NODE
 };
 void *x86_cpu_to_node_map_early_ptr;
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/topology.h b/include/asm-x86/topology.h
index a89b46eb2526..2da1464ecbef 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/topology.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/topology.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
 /* Mappings between logical cpu number and node number */
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(u16, x86_cpu_to_node_map);
-extern u16 __initdata x86_cpu_to_node_map_init[];
+extern u16 x86_cpu_to_node_map_init[];
 extern void *x86_cpu_to_node_map_early_ptr;
 extern cpumask_t node_to_cpumask_map[];