diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 3633eeefaa0d..27697b2429c2 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -3104,7 +3104,7 @@ int __init pcpu_embed_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size, size_t dyn_size,
 			goto out_free_areas;
 		}
 		/* kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations separately */
-		kmemleak_free(ptr);
+		kmemleak_ignore_phys(__pa(ptr));
 		areas[group] = ptr;
 
 		base = min(ptr, base);
@@ -3304,7 +3304,7 @@ int __init pcpu_page_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size, pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t
 				goto enomem;
 			}
 			/* kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations separately */
-			kmemleak_free(ptr);
+			kmemleak_ignore_phys(__pa(ptr));
 			pages[j++] = virt_to_page(ptr);
 		}
 	}
@@ -3417,7 +3417,7 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
 	if (!ai || !fc)
 		panic("Failed to allocate memory for percpu areas.");
 	/* kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations separately */
-	kmemleak_free(fc);
+	kmemleak_ignore_phys(__pa(fc));
 
 	ai->dyn_size = unit_size;
 	ai->unit_size = unit_size;