diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index c664064f76fb60ccc434988266776697660d0a5f..8d8a372c834014dd0f6b40fae0892e0958e88a59 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -4510,7 +4510,8 @@ Do not enable KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT if you disable HLT exits.
 Architectures: s390
 Parameters: none
 Returns: 0 on success, -EINVAL if hpage module parameter was not set
-	 or cmma is enabled
+	 or cmma is enabled, or the VM has the KVM_VM_S390_UCONTROL
+	 flag set
 
 With this capability the KVM support for memory backing with 1m pages
 through hugetlbfs can be enabled for a VM. After the capability is
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index f69333fd2fa3818c5eeb8bff9240f67e29f37ef0..ac5da6b0b862a3d725297890b7feb6cae6d06788 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_1M:
 		r = 0;
-		if (hpage)
+		if (hpage && !kvm_is_ucontrol(kvm))
 			r = 1;
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_S390_MEM_OP:
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_enable_cap *cap)
 		mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
 		if (kvm->created_vcpus)
 			r = -EBUSY;
-		else if (!hpage || kvm->arch.use_cmma)
+		else if (!hpage || kvm->arch.use_cmma || kvm_is_ucontrol(kvm))
 			r = -EINVAL;
 		else {
 			r = 0;