diff --git a/kernel/configs/fragments/common/huge.conf b/kernel/configs/fragments/common/huge.conf
index 60e0abba4..5fa30cac1 100644
--- a/kernel/configs/fragments/common/huge.conf
+++ b/kernel/configs/fragments/common/huge.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Items to enable large/huge mmu pages and tlbs etc.
 
+# Compaction is the only memory management component to form high order
+# (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks reliably. The lack of the
+# feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer invocations for high order memory requests.
+CONFIG_COMPACTION=y
+
 CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y
 
 # Enable memory page physical migration here, as it can come
diff --git a/kernel/configs/fragments/common/mmu.conf b/kernel/configs/fragments/common/mmu.conf
index 39e1b9d37..20aa00ae8 100644
--- a/kernel/configs/fragments/common/mmu.conf
+++ b/kernel/configs/fragments/common/mmu.conf
@@ -3,4 +3,3 @@
 # vmap the kernel stacks - detects stack over-runs better and reduces
 # the stack attack window.
 CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y
-