diff --git a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock
index 6dea4fd5c961..62842a857dab 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock
+++ b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ everything required is done by pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_page_dtor(),
 which must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing.
 
 Make sure the architecture doesn't use slab allocator for page table
-allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache and page->first_page for its pages.
-These fields share storage with page->ptl.
+allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache for its pages.
+This field shares storage with page->ptl.
 
 PMD split lock only makes sense if you have more than two page table
 levels.
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
index f3dfe0d921c2..44c6764d9146 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
 # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
 CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
 CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
-CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED=y
 CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
 # CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is not set
 CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h b/include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h
index 7edd30515298..24154c26d469 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static inline struct hugetlb_cgroup *hugetlb_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
 
 	if (compound_order(page) < HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER)
 		return NULL;
-	return (struct hugetlb_cgroup *)page[2].lru.next;
+	return (struct hugetlb_cgroup *)page[2].private;
 }
 
 static inline
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ int set_hugetlb_cgroup(struct page *page, struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg)
 
 	if (compound_order(page) < HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER)
 		return -1;
-	page[2].lru.next = (void *)h_cg;
+	page[2].private	= (unsigned long)h_cg;
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 6581c21320cb..9671b6f23eda 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -430,46 +430,6 @@ static inline void compound_unlock_irqrestore(struct page *page,
 #endif
 }
 
-static inline struct page *compound_head_by_tail(struct page *tail)
-{
-	struct page *head = tail->first_page;
-
-	/*
-	 * page->first_page may be a dangling pointer to an old
-	 * compound page, so recheck that it is still a tail
-	 * page before returning.
-	 */
-	smp_rmb();
-	if (likely(PageTail(tail)))
-		return head;
-	return tail;
-}
-
-/*
- * Since either compound page could be dismantled asynchronously in THP
- * or we access asynchronously arbitrary positioned struct page, there
- * would be tail flag race. To handle this race, we should call
- * smp_rmb() before checking tail flag. compound_head_by_tail() did it.
- */
-static inline struct page *compound_head(struct page *page)
-{
-	if (unlikely(PageTail(page)))
-		return compound_head_by_tail(page);
-	return page;
-}
-
-/*
- * If we access compound page synchronously such as access to
- * allocated page, there is no need to handle tail flag race, so we can
- * check tail flag directly without any synchronization primitive.
- */
-static inline struct page *compound_head_fast(struct page *page)
-{
-	if (unlikely(PageTail(page)))
-		return page->first_page;
-	return page;
-}
-
 /*
  * The atomic page->_mapcount, starts from -1: so that transitions
  * both from it and to it can be tracked, using atomic_inc_and_test
@@ -518,7 +478,7 @@ static inline void get_huge_page_tail(struct page *page)
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTail(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapcount(page) < 0, page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0, page);
-	if (compound_tail_refcounted(page->first_page))
+	if (compound_tail_refcounted(compound_head(page)))
 		atomic_inc(&page->_mapcount);
 }
 
@@ -541,13 +501,7 @@ static inline struct page *virt_to_head_page(const void *x)
 {
 	struct page *page = virt_to_page(x);
 
-	/*
-	 * We don't need to worry about synchronization of tail flag
-	 * when we call virt_to_head_page() since it is only called for
-	 * already allocated page and this page won't be freed until
-	 * this virt_to_head_page() is finished. So use _fast variant.
-	 */
-	return compound_head_fast(page);
+	return compound_head(page);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1586,8 +1540,7 @@ static inline bool ptlock_init(struct page *page)
 	 * with 0. Make sure nobody took it in use in between.
 	 *
 	 * It can happen if arch try to use slab for page table allocation:
-	 * slab code uses page->slab_cache and page->first_page (for tail
-	 * pages), which share storage with page->ptl.
+	 * slab code uses page->slab_cache, which share storage with page->ptl.
 	 */
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(*(unsigned long *)&page->ptl, page);
 	if (!ptlock_alloc(page))
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index e334ef79cb43..bb91658c603f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -111,7 +111,13 @@ struct page {
 		};
 	};
 
-	/* Third double word block */
+	/*
+	 * Third double word block
+	 *
+	 * WARNING: bit 0 of the first word encode PageTail(). That means
+	 * the rest users of the storage space MUST NOT use the bit to
+	 * avoid collision and false-positive PageTail().
+	 */
 	union {
 		struct list_head lru;	/* Pageout list, eg. active_list
 					 * protected by zone->lru_lock !
@@ -132,14 +138,23 @@ struct page {
 		struct rcu_head rcu_head;	/* Used by SLAB
 						 * when destroying via RCU
 						 */
-		/* First tail page of compound page */
+		/* Tail pages of compound page */
 		struct {
+			unsigned long compound_head; /* If bit zero is set */
+
+			/* First tail page only */
 			unsigned short int compound_dtor;
 			unsigned short int compound_order;
 		};
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && USE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS
-		pgtable_t pmd_huge_pte; /* protected by page->ptl */
+		struct {
+			unsigned long __pad;	/* do not overlay pmd_huge_pte
+						 * with compound_head to avoid
+						 * possible bit 0 collision.
+						 */
+			pgtable_t pmd_huge_pte; /* protected by page->ptl */
+		};
 #endif
 	};
 
@@ -160,7 +175,6 @@ struct page {
 #endif
 #endif
 		struct kmem_cache *slab_cache;	/* SL[AU]B: Pointer to slab */
-		struct page *first_page;	/* Compound tail pages */
 	};
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index a525e5067484..bb53c7b86315 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -86,12 +86,7 @@ enum pageflags {
 	PG_private,		/* If pagecache, has fs-private data */
 	PG_private_2,		/* If pagecache, has fs aux data */
 	PG_writeback,		/* Page is under writeback */
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
 	PG_head,		/* A head page */
-	PG_tail,		/* A tail page */
-#else
-	PG_compound,		/* A compound page */
-#endif
 	PG_swapcache,		/* Swap page: swp_entry_t in private */
 	PG_mappedtodisk,	/* Has blocks allocated on-disk */
 	PG_reclaim,		/* To be reclaimed asap */
@@ -398,21 +393,35 @@ static inline void set_page_writeback_keepwrite(struct page *page)
 	test_set_page_writeback_keepwrite(page);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
-/*
- * System with lots of page flags available. This allows separate
- * flags for PageHead() and PageTail() checks of compound pages so that bit
- * tests can be used in performance sensitive paths. PageCompound is
- * generally not used in hot code paths except arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
- * and arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio_hv.c which use it to detect huge pages
- * and avoid handling those in real mode.
- */
 __PAGEFLAG(Head, head) CLEARPAGEFLAG(Head, head)
-__PAGEFLAG(Tail, tail)
+
+static inline int PageTail(struct page *page)
+{
+	return READ_ONCE(page->compound_head) & 1;
+}
+
+static inline void set_compound_head(struct page *page, struct page *head)
+{
+	WRITE_ONCE(page->compound_head, (unsigned long)head + 1);
+}
+
+static inline void clear_compound_head(struct page *page)
+{
+	WRITE_ONCE(page->compound_head, 0);
+}
+
+static inline struct page *compound_head(struct page *page)
+{
+	unsigned long head = READ_ONCE(page->compound_head);
+
+	if (unlikely(head & 1))
+		return (struct page *) (head - 1);
+	return page;
+}
 
 static inline int PageCompound(struct page *page)
 {
-	return page->flags & ((1L << PG_head) | (1L << PG_tail));
+	return PageHead(page) || PageTail(page);
 
 }
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
@@ -425,59 +434,6 @@ static inline void ClearPageCompound(struct page *page)
 
 #define PG_head_mask ((1L << PG_head))
 
-#else
-/*
- * Reduce page flag use as much as possible by overlapping
- * compound page flags with the flags used for page cache pages. Possible
- * because PageCompound is always set for compound pages and not for
- * pages on the LRU and/or pagecache.
- */
-TESTPAGEFLAG(Compound, compound)
-__SETPAGEFLAG(Head, compound)  __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Head, compound)
-
-/*
- * PG_reclaim is used in combination with PG_compound to mark the
- * head and tail of a compound page. This saves one page flag
- * but makes it impossible to use compound pages for the page cache.
- * The PG_reclaim bit would have to be used for reclaim or readahead
- * if compound pages enter the page cache.
- *
- * PG_compound & PG_reclaim	=> Tail page
- * PG_compound & ~PG_reclaim	=> Head page
- */
-#define PG_head_mask ((1L << PG_compound))
-#define PG_head_tail_mask ((1L << PG_compound) | (1L << PG_reclaim))
-
-static inline int PageHead(struct page *page)
-{
-	return ((page->flags & PG_head_tail_mask) == PG_head_mask);
-}
-
-static inline int PageTail(struct page *page)
-{
-	return ((page->flags & PG_head_tail_mask) == PG_head_tail_mask);
-}
-
-static inline void __SetPageTail(struct page *page)
-{
-	page->flags |= PG_head_tail_mask;
-}
-
-static inline void __ClearPageTail(struct page *page)
-{
-	page->flags &= ~PG_head_tail_mask;
-}
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
-static inline void ClearPageCompound(struct page *page)
-{
-	BUG_ON((page->flags & PG_head_tail_mask) != (1 << PG_compound));
-	clear_bit(PG_compound, &page->flags);
-}
-#endif
-
-#endif /* !PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED */
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 int PageHuge(struct page *page);
 int PageHeadHuge(struct page *page);
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 0d9fdcd01e47..97a4e06b15c0 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -200,18 +200,6 @@ config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
 	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
 	depends on MIGRATION
 
-#
-# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
-# optimizations and functionality.
-#
-# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
-# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
-# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
-#
-config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
-	def_bool y
-	depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
-
 # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
 # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
 # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
index e784110fb51d..668aa35191ca 100644
--- a/mm/debug.c
+++ b/mm/debug.c
@@ -25,12 +25,7 @@ static const struct trace_print_flags pageflag_names[] = {
 	{1UL << PG_private,		"private"	},
 	{1UL << PG_private_2,		"private_2"	},
 	{1UL << PG_writeback,		"writeback"	},
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
 	{1UL << PG_head,		"head"		},
-	{1UL << PG_tail,		"tail"		},
-#else
-	{1UL << PG_compound,		"compound"	},
-#endif
 	{1UL << PG_swapcache,		"swapcache"	},
 	{1UL << PG_mappedtodisk,	"mappedtodisk"	},
 	{1UL << PG_reclaim,		"reclaim"	},
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 73266ee7274c..e1ccc83f73d3 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1755,8 +1755,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page_refcount(struct page *page,
 				      (1L << PG_unevictable)));
 		page_tail->flags |= (1L << PG_dirty);
 
-		/* clear PageTail before overwriting first_page */
-		smp_wmb();
+		clear_compound_head(page_tail);
 
 		if (page_is_young(page))
 			set_page_young(page_tail);
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index e90a29024c5c..4eb0f0964883 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1001,9 +1001,8 @@ static void destroy_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page,
 	struct page *p = page + 1;
 
 	for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++, p = mem_map_next(p, page, i)) {
-		__ClearPageTail(p);
+		clear_compound_head(p);
 		set_page_refcounted(p);
-		p->first_page = NULL;
 	}
 
 	set_compound_order(page, 0);
@@ -1276,10 +1275,7 @@ static void prep_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
 		 */
 		__ClearPageReserved(p);
 		set_page_count(p, 0);
-		p->first_page = page;
-		/* Make sure p->first_page is always valid for PageTail() */
-		smp_wmb();
-		__SetPageTail(p);
+		set_compound_head(p, page);
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
index 33d59abe91f1..d8fb10de0f14 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ void __init hugetlb_cgroup_file_init(void)
 		/*
 		 * Add cgroup control files only if the huge page consists
 		 * of more than two normal pages. This is because we use
-		 * page[2].lru.next for storing cgroup details.
+		 * page[2].private for storing cgroup details.
 		 */
 		if (huge_page_order(h) >= HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER)
 			__hugetlb_cgroup_file_init(hstate_index(h));
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 5b7841f6fa27..a7f5670fea23 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ static inline void __get_page_tail_foll(struct page *page,
 	 * speculative page access (like in
 	 * page_cache_get_speculative()) on tail pages.
 	 */
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&page->first_page->_count) <= 0, page);
+	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&compound_head(page)->_count) <= 0, page);
 	if (get_page_head)
-		atomic_inc(&page->first_page->_count);
+		atomic_inc(&compound_head(page)->_count);
 	get_huge_page_tail(page);
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 16a0ec385320..8424b64711ac 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -776,8 +776,6 @@ static int me_huge_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 #define lru		(1UL << PG_lru)
 #define swapbacked	(1UL << PG_swapbacked)
 #define head		(1UL << PG_head)
-#define tail		(1UL << PG_tail)
-#define compound	(1UL << PG_compound)
 #define slab		(1UL << PG_slab)
 #define reserved	(1UL << PG_reserved)
 
@@ -800,12 +798,7 @@ static struct page_state {
 	 */
 	{ slab,		slab,		MF_MSG_SLAB,	me_kernel },
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
 	{ head,		head,		MF_MSG_HUGE,		me_huge_page },
-	{ tail,		tail,		MF_MSG_HUGE,		me_huge_page },
-#else
-	{ compound,	compound,	MF_MSG_HUGE,		me_huge_page },
-#endif
 
 	{ sc|dirty,	sc|dirty,	MF_MSG_DIRTY_SWAPCACHE,	me_swapcache_dirty },
 	{ sc|dirty,	sc,		MF_MSG_CLEAN_SWAPCACHE,	me_swapcache_clean },
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index fae1bd6f9f37..e361001519d3 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -445,15 +445,15 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page, const char *reason,
 /*
  * Higher-order pages are called "compound pages".  They are structured thusly:
  *
- * The first PAGE_SIZE page is called the "head page".
+ * The first PAGE_SIZE page is called the "head page" and have PG_head set.
  *
- * The remaining PAGE_SIZE pages are called "tail pages".
+ * The remaining PAGE_SIZE pages are called "tail pages". PageTail() is encoded
+ * in bit 0 of page->compound_head. The rest of bits is pointer to head page.
  *
- * All pages have PG_compound set.  All tail pages have their ->first_page
- * pointing at the head page.
+ * The first tail page's ->compound_dtor holds the offset in array of compound
+ * page destructors. See compound_page_dtors.
  *
- * The first tail page's ->lru.next holds the address of the compound page's
- * put_page() function.  Its ->lru.prev holds the order of allocation.
+ * The first tail page's ->compound_order holds the order of allocation.
  * This usage means that zero-order pages may not be compound.
  */
 
@@ -473,10 +473,7 @@ void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
 	for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		struct page *p = page + i;
 		set_page_count(p, 0);
-		p->first_page = page;
-		/* Make sure p->first_page is always valid for PageTail() */
-		smp_wmb();
-		__SetPageTail(p);
+		set_compound_head(p, page);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -854,17 +851,30 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
 
 static int free_tail_pages_check(struct page *head_page, struct page *page)
 {
-	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM))
-		return 0;
+	int ret = 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * We rely page->lru.next never has bit 0 set, unless the page
+	 * is PageTail(). Let's make sure that's true even for poisoned ->lru.
+	 */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON((unsigned long)LIST_POISON1 & 1);
+
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)) {
+		ret = 0;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	if (unlikely(!PageTail(page))) {
 		bad_page(page, "PageTail not set", 0);
-		return 1;
+		goto out;
 	}
-	if (unlikely(page->first_page != head_page)) {
-		bad_page(page, "first_page not consistent", 0);
-		return 1;
+	if (unlikely(compound_head(page) != head_page)) {
+		bad_page(page, "compound_head not consistent", 0);
+		goto out;
 	}
-	return 0;
+	ret = 0;
+out:
+	clear_compound_head(page);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void __meminit __init_single_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
@@ -931,6 +941,10 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 			struct page *page = pfn_to_page(start_pfn);
 
 			init_reserved_page(start_pfn);
+
+			/* Avoid false-positive PageTail() */
+			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
+
 			SetPageReserved(page);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 983f692a47fd..39395fb549c0 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ void put_refcounted_compound_page(struct page *page_head, struct page *page)
 				__put_single_page(page);
 			return;
 		}
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_head != page->first_page, page);
+		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_head != compound_head(page), page);
 		/*
 		 * We can release the refcount taken by
 		 * get_page_unless_zero() now that
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static void put_compound_page(struct page *page)
 	 *  Case 3 is possible, as we may race with
 	 *  __split_huge_page_refcount tearing down a THP page.
 	 */
-	page_head = compound_head_by_tail(page);
+	page_head = compound_head(page);
 	if (!__compound_tail_refcounted(page_head))
 		put_unrefcounted_compound_page(page_head, page);
 	else