diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 685e30e6d27c5b698b8842a5609ca88bc34a370c..d036c7861310cbfb0efcc36ee36279877978d171 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -1640,13 +1640,7 @@ void __init memblock_free_late(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
 	end = PFN_DOWN(base + size);
 
 	for (; cursor < end; cursor++) {
-		/*
-		 * Reserved pages are always initialized by the end of
-		 * memblock_free_all() (by memmap_init() and, if deferred
-		 * initialization is enabled, memmap_init_reserved_pages()), so
-		 * these pages can be released directly to the buddy allocator.
-		 */
-		__free_pages_core(pfn_to_page(cursor), 0);
+		memblock_free_pages(pfn_to_page(cursor), cursor, 0);
 		totalram_pages_inc();
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tools/testing/memblock/internal.h b/tools/testing/memblock/internal.h
index 85973e55489e75f1d7e66199f1b616dd299c46bd..fdb7f5db730822e93d7732026218609cda4a054c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/memblock/internal.h
+++ b/tools/testing/memblock/internal.h
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ bool mirrored_kernelcore = false;
 
 struct page {};
 
-void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
-{
-}
-
 void memblock_free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
 			 unsigned int order)
 {