--- a/include/linux/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/topology.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void);
 /* Conform to ACPI 2.0 SLIT distance definitions */
 #define LOCAL_DISTANCE		10
 #define REMOTE_DISTANCE		20
+#define DISTANCE_BITS           8
 #ifndef node_distance
 #define node_distance(from,to)	((from) == (to) ? LOCAL_DISTANCE : REMOTE_DISTANCE)
 #endif
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -1322,66 +1322,58 @@ static void init_numa_topology_type(void
 	}
 }
 
+
+#define NR_DISTANCE_VALUES (1 << DISTANCE_BITS)
+
 void sched_init_numa(void)
 {
-	int next_distance, curr_distance = node_distance(0, 0);
 	struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl;
-	int level = 0;
-	int i, j, k;
-
-	sched_domains_numa_distance = kzalloc(sizeof(int) * (nr_node_ids + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!sched_domains_numa_distance)
-		return;
-
-	/* Includes NUMA identity node at level 0. */
-	sched_domains_numa_distance[level++] = curr_distance;
-	sched_domains_numa_levels = level;
+	unsigned long *distance_map;
+	int nr_levels = 0;
+	int i, j;
 
 	/*
 	 * O(nr_nodes^2) deduplicating selection sort -- in order to find the
 	 * unique distances in the node_distance() table.
-	 *
-	 * Assumes node_distance(0,j) includes all distances in
-	 * node_distance(i,j) in order to avoid cubic time.
 	 */
-	next_distance = curr_distance;
+	distance_map = bitmap_alloc(NR_DISTANCE_VALUES, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!distance_map)
+		return;
+
+	bitmap_zero(distance_map, NR_DISTANCE_VALUES);
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_node_ids; i++) {
 		for (j = 0; j < nr_node_ids; j++) {
-			for (k = 0; k < nr_node_ids; k++) {
-				int distance = node_distance(i, k);
+			int distance = node_distance(i, j);
 
-				if (distance > curr_distance &&
-				    (distance < next_distance ||
-				     next_distance == curr_distance))
-					next_distance = distance;
-
-				/*
-				 * While not a strong assumption it would be nice to know
-				 * about cases where if node A is connected to B, B is not
-				 * equally connected to A.
-				 */
-				if (sched_debug() && node_distance(k, i) != distance)
-					sched_numa_warn("Node-distance not symmetric");
-
-				if (sched_debug() && i && !find_numa_distance(distance))
-					sched_numa_warn("Node-0 not representative");
+			if (distance < LOCAL_DISTANCE || distance >= NR_DISTANCE_VALUES) {
+				sched_numa_warn("Invalid distance value range");
+				return;
 			}
-			if (next_distance != curr_distance) {
-				sched_domains_numa_distance[level++] = next_distance;
-				sched_domains_numa_levels = level;
-				curr_distance = next_distance;
-			} else break;
+
+			bitmap_set(distance_map, distance, 1);
 		}
+	}
+	/*
+	 * We can now figure out how many unique distance values there are and
+	 * allocate memory accordingly.
+	 */
+	nr_levels = bitmap_weight(distance_map, NR_DISTANCE_VALUES);
 
-		/*
-		 * In case of sched_debug() we verify the above assumption.
-		 */
-		if (!sched_debug())
-			break;
+	sched_domains_numa_distance = kcalloc(nr_levels, sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!sched_domains_numa_distance) {
+		bitmap_free(distance_map);
+		return;
 	}
 
+	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < nr_levels; i++, j++) {
+		j = find_next_bit(distance_map, NR_DISTANCE_VALUES, j);
+		sched_domains_numa_distance[i] = j;
+	}
+
+	bitmap_free(distance_map);
+
 	/*
-	 * 'level' contains the number of unique distances
+	 * 'nr_levels' contains the number of unique distances
 	 *
 	 * The sched_domains_numa_distance[] array includes the actual distance
 	 * numbers.
@@ -1390,15 +1382,15 @@ void sched_init_numa(void)
 	/*
 	 * Here, we should temporarily reset sched_domains_numa_levels to 0.
 	 * If it fails to allocate memory for array sched_domains_numa_masks[][],
-	 * the array will contain less then 'level' members. This could be
+	 * the array will contain less then 'nr_levels' members. This could be
 	 * dangerous when we use it to iterate array sched_domains_numa_masks[][]
 	 * in other functions.
 	 *
-	 * We reset it to 'level' at the end of this function.
+	 * We reset it to 'nr_levels' at the end of this function.
 	 */
 	sched_domains_numa_levels = 0;
 
-	sched_domains_numa_masks = kzalloc(sizeof(void *) * level, GFP_KERNEL);
+	sched_domains_numa_masks = kzalloc(sizeof(void *) * nr_levels, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sched_domains_numa_masks)
 		return;
 
@@ -1406,7 +1398,7 @@ void sched_init_numa(void)
 	 * Now for each level, construct a mask per node which contains all
 	 * CPUs of nodes that are that many hops away from us.
 	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < level; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_levels; i++) {
 		sched_domains_numa_masks[i] =
 			kzalloc(nr_node_ids * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!sched_domains_numa_masks[i])
@@ -1414,12 +1406,17 @@ void sched_init_numa(void)
 
 		for (j = 0; j < nr_node_ids; j++) {
 			struct cpumask *mask = kzalloc(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
+			int k;
+
 			if (!mask)
 				return;
 
 			sched_domains_numa_masks[i][j] = mask;
 
 			for_each_node(k) {
+				if (sched_debug() && (node_distance(j, k) != node_distance(k, j)))
+					sched_numa_warn("Node-distance not symmetric");
+
 				if (node_distance(j, k) > sched_domains_numa_distance[i])
 					continue;
 
@@ -1431,7 +1428,7 @@ void sched_init_numa(void)
 	/* Compute default topology size */
 	for (i = 0; sched_domain_topology[i].mask; i++);
 
-	tl = kzalloc((i + level + 1) *
+	tl = kzalloc((i + nr_levels) *
 			sizeof(struct sched_domain_topology_level), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tl)
 		return;
@@ -1454,7 +1451,7 @@ void sched_init_numa(void)
 	/*
 	 * .. and append 'j' levels of NUMA goodness.
 	 */
-	for (j = 1; j < level; i++, j++) {
+	for (j = 1; j < nr_levels; i++, j++) {
 		tl[i] = (struct sched_domain_topology_level){
 			.mask = sd_numa_mask,
 			.sd_flags = cpu_numa_flags,
@@ -1466,8 +1463,8 @@ void sched_init_numa(void)
 
 	sched_domain_topology = tl;
 
-	sched_domains_numa_levels = level;
-	sched_max_numa_distance = sched_domains_numa_distance[level - 1];
+	sched_domains_numa_levels = nr_levels;
+	sched_max_numa_distance = sched_domains_numa_distance[nr_levels - 1];
 
 	init_numa_topology_type();
 }
