diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 2040275209371d53d751a2cbbf92b251933c6dc6..e19d4c0cacae176bcb003e608c6872079908d92d 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -1030,6 +1030,11 @@ static int __init init_hugetlbfs_fs(void)
 	int error;
 	int i;
 
+	if (!hugepages_supported()) {
+		pr_info("hugetlbfs: disabling because there are no supported hugepage sizes\n");
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
+	}
+
 	error = bdi_init(&hugetlbfs_backing_dev_info);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 5b337cf8fb8655755fd00360df587745e8cc34f6..b65166de1d9d1f754f787aa1f58444e9d3da4ff0 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -412,6 +412,16 @@ static inline spinlock_t *huge_pte_lockptr(struct hstate *h,
 	return &mm->page_table_lock;
 }
 
+static inline bool hugepages_supported(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Some platform decide whether they support huge pages at boot
+	 * time. On these, such as powerpc, HPAGE_SHIFT is set to 0 when
+	 * there is no such support
+	 */
+	return HPAGE_SHIFT != 0;
+}
+
 #else	/* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
 struct hstate {};
 #define alloc_huge_page_node(h, nid) NULL
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 246192929a2d5c4c4aa424e15c6a7b88e929e785..c82290b9c1fcdb1b1dfdffcad699d6eb83ee8a43 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1981,11 +1981,7 @@ static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
 {
 	int i;
 
-	/* Some platform decide whether they support huge pages at boot
-	 * time. On these, such as powerpc, HPAGE_SHIFT is set to 0 when
-	 * there is no such support
-	 */
-	if (HPAGE_SHIFT == 0)
+	if (!hugepages_supported())
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!size_to_hstate(default_hstate_size)) {
@@ -2112,6 +2108,9 @@ static int hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common(bool obey_mempolicy,
 	unsigned long tmp;
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!hugepages_supported())
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
+
 	tmp = h->max_huge_pages;
 
 	if (write && h->order >= MAX_ORDER)
@@ -2165,6 +2164,9 @@ int hugetlb_overcommit_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	unsigned long tmp;
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!hugepages_supported())
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
+
 	tmp = h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
 
 	if (write && h->order >= MAX_ORDER)
@@ -2190,6 +2192,8 @@ int hugetlb_overcommit_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 void hugetlb_report_meminfo(struct seq_file *m)
 {
 	struct hstate *h = &default_hstate;
+	if (!hugepages_supported())
+		return;
 	seq_printf(m,
 			"HugePages_Total:   %5lu\n"
 			"HugePages_Free:    %5lu\n"
@@ -2206,6 +2210,8 @@ void hugetlb_report_meminfo(struct seq_file *m)
 int hugetlb_report_node_meminfo(int nid, char *buf)
 {
 	struct hstate *h = &default_hstate;
+	if (!hugepages_supported())
+		return 0;
 	return sprintf(buf,
 		"Node %d HugePages_Total: %5u\n"
 		"Node %d HugePages_Free:  %5u\n"
@@ -2220,6 +2226,9 @@ void hugetlb_show_meminfo(void)
 	struct hstate *h;
 	int nid;
 
+	if (!hugepages_supported())
+		return;
+
 	for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
 		for_each_hstate(h)
 			pr_info("Node %d hugepages_total=%u hugepages_free=%u hugepages_surp=%u hugepages_size=%lukB\n",