ND_MAX_LANES = 256,
        SECTOR_SHIFT = 9,
        INT_LBASIZE_ALIGNMENT = 64,
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NVDIMM_PFN)
-       ND_PFN_ALIGN = PAGES_PER_SECTION * PAGE_SIZE,
-       ND_PFN_MASK = ND_PFN_ALIGN - 1,
-#else
-       ND_PFN_ALIGN = 0,
-       ND_PFN_MASK = 0,
-#endif
 };
 
 struct nvdimm_drvdata {
 
        if (!is_nd_pmem(nd_pfn->dev.parent))
                return -ENODEV;
 
-       /* section alignment for simple hotplug */
-       if (nvdimm_namespace_capacity(ndns) < ND_PFN_ALIGN)
-               return -ENODEV;
-
        if (nvdimm_read_bytes(ndns, SZ_4K, pfn_sb, sizeof(*pfn_sb)))
                return -ENXIO;
 
         */
        offset = le64_to_cpu(pfn_sb->dataoff);
        nsio = to_nd_namespace_io(&ndns->dev);
-       if (nsio->res.start & ND_PFN_MASK) {
-               dev_err(&nd_pfn->dev,
-                               "init failed: %s not section aligned\n",
-                               dev_name(&ndns->dev));
-               return -EBUSY;
-       } else if (offset >= resource_size(&nsio->res)) {
+       if (offset >= resource_size(&nsio->res)) {
                dev_err(&nd_pfn->dev, "pfn array size exceeds capacity of %s\n",
                                dev_name(&ndns->dev));
                return -EBUSY;
 
        if (rc == 0 || rc == -EBUSY)
                return rc;
 
-       /* section alignment for simple hotplug */
-       if (nvdimm_namespace_capacity(ndns) < ND_PFN_ALIGN
-                       || pmem->phys_addr & ND_PFN_MASK)
-               return -ENODEV;
-
        nd_region = to_nd_region(nd_pfn->dev.parent);
        if (nd_region->ro) {
                dev_info(&nd_pfn->dev,
        if (rc)
                return rc;
 
-       if (PAGE_SIZE != SZ_4K) {
-               dev_err(dev, "only supported on systems with 4K PAGE_SIZE\n");
-               return -ENXIO;
-       }
-       if (nsio->res.start & ND_PFN_MASK) {
-               dev_err(dev, "%s not memory hotplug section aligned\n",
-                               dev_name(&ndns->dev));
-               return -ENXIO;
-       }
-
        pfn_sb = nd_pfn->pfn_sb;
        offset = le64_to_cpu(pfn_sb->dataoff);
        nd_pfn->mode = le32_to_cpu(nd_pfn->pfn_sb->mode);