diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 0d12c3cf1f86..b5c21122c299 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -418,20 +418,9 @@ extern struct pglist_data contig_page_data;
 
 #endif /* !CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES */
 
-static inline struct pglist_data *first_online_pgdat(void)
-{
-	return NODE_DATA(first_online_node);
-}
-
-static inline struct pglist_data *next_online_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
-{
-	int nid = next_online_node(pgdat->node_id);
-
-	if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
-		return NULL;
-	return NODE_DATA(nid);
-}
-
+extern struct pglist_data *first_online_pgdat(void);
+extern struct pglist_data *next_online_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
+extern struct zone *next_zone(struct zone *zone);
 
 /**
  * for_each_pgdat - helper macro to iterate over all nodes
@@ -441,27 +430,6 @@ static inline struct pglist_data *next_online_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 	for (pgdat = first_online_pgdat();		\
 	     pgdat;					\
 	     pgdat = next_online_pgdat(pgdat))
-
-/*
- * next_zone - helper magic for for_each_zone()
- * Thanks to William Lee Irwin III for this piece of ingenuity.
- */
-static inline struct zone *next_zone(struct zone *zone)
-{
-	pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
-
-	if (zone < pgdat->node_zones + MAX_NR_ZONES - 1)
-		zone++;
-	else {
-		pgdat = next_online_pgdat(pgdat);
-		if (pgdat)
-			zone = pgdat->node_zones;
-		else
-			zone = NULL;
-	}
-	return zone;
-}
-
 /**
  * for_each_zone - helper macro to iterate over all memory zones
  * @zone - pointer to struct zone variable
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index f10c753dce6d..0b8f73f2ed16 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ mmu-$(CONFIG_MMU)	:= fremap.o highmem.o madvise.o memory.o mincore.o \
 obj-y			:= bootmem.o filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
 			   page_alloc.o page-writeback.o pdflush.o \
 			   readahead.o swap.o truncate.o vmscan.o \
-			   prio_tree.o util.o $(mmu-y)
+			   prio_tree.o util.o mmzone.o $(mmu-y)
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP)	+= page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o thrash.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS)	+= hugetlb.o
diff --git a/mm/mmzone.c b/mm/mmzone.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b022370e612e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/mmzone.c
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * linux/mm/mmzone.c
+ *
+ * management codes for pgdats and zones.
+ */
+
+
+#include <linux/config.h>
+#include <linux/stddef.h>
+#include <linux/mmzone.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+struct pglist_data *first_online_pgdat(void)
+{
+	return NODE_DATA(first_online_node);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(first_online_pgdat);
+
+struct pglist_data *next_online_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
+{
+	int nid = next_online_node(pgdat->node_id);
+
+	if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
+		return NULL;
+	return NODE_DATA(nid);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(next_online_pgdat);
+
+
+/*
+ * next_zone - helper magic for for_each_zone()
+ */
+struct zone *next_zone(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
+
+	if (zone < pgdat->node_zones + MAX_NR_ZONES - 1)
+		zone++;
+	else {
+		pgdat = next_online_pgdat(pgdat);
+		if (pgdat)
+			zone = pgdat->node_zones;
+		else
+			zone = NULL;
+	}
+	return zone;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(next_zone);
+