}
 }
 
+/*
+ * With compound page geometry and when struct pages are stored in ram most
+ * tail pages are reused. Consequently, the amount of unique struct pages to
+ * initialize is a lot smaller that the total amount of struct pages being
+ * mapped. This is a paired / mild layering violation with explicit knowledge
+ * of how the sparse_vmemmap internals handle compound pages in the lack
+ * of an altmap. See vmemmap_populate_compound_pages().
+ */
+static inline unsigned long compound_nr_pages(struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
+                                             unsigned long nr_pages)
+{
+       return is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)) &&
+               !altmap ? 2 * (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page)) : nr_pages;
+}
+
 static void __ref memmap_init_compound(struct page *head,
                                       unsigned long head_pfn,
                                       unsigned long zone_idx, int nid,
                        continue;
 
                memmap_init_compound(page, pfn, zone_idx, nid, pgmap,
-                                    pfns_per_compound);
+                                    compound_nr_pages(altmap, pfns_per_compound));
        }
 
        pr_info("%s initialised %lu pages in %ums\n", __func__,