diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index e92432ae9737..73fcf592ee91 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ config PPC
 	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
 	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
-	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
 	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF		if PPC64
 	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 9376637229c9..0105ce28e246 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ config S390
 	select ARCH_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE
 	select ARCH_SAVE_PAGE_KEYS if HIBERNATION
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
-	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
 	select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
 	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index dbe5542a6666..7a1c51198af1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ config X86
 	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
 	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
-	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING	if X86_64
 	select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
 	select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 03ff7703d322..c782e8fb7235 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -639,15 +639,10 @@ config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
 
 	  A sane initial value is 80 MB.
 
-# For architectures that support deferred memory initialisation
-config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
-	bool
-
 config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
 	default n
-	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
-	depends on NO_BOOTMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	depends on NO_BOOTMEM
 	depends on !FLATMEM
 	help
 	  Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a