diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index c33e3ad2c8fd52c9e0c31dfc272faf3d34902f37..e3009abc7f75b4bface80915dcaf847554cc8fd6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE
 
 config MATH_EMULATION
 	bool "Math emulation"
-	depends on 4xx || 8xx || E200 || PPC_MPC832x || E500
+	depends on 4xx || 8xx || PPC_MPC832x || BOOKE
 	---help---
 	  Some PowerPC chips designed for embedded applications do not have
 	  a floating-point unit and therefore do not implement the
@@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ config MATH_EMULATION
 	  unit, which will allow programs that use floating-point
 	  instructions to run.
 
+	  This is also useful to emulate missing (optional) instructions
+	  such as fsqrt on cores that do have an FPU but do not implement
+	  them (such as Freescale BookE).
+
 config PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
        bool "Transactional Memory support for POWERPC"
        depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index f18c79c324eff539a25f8a5f10d13566a68eb573..f4b5687b0c66f69c49d74c9308c558c9118c3e01 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1125,7 +1125,17 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	 * ESR_DST (!?) or 0.  In the process of chasing this with the
 	 * hardware people - not sure if it can happen on any illegal
 	 * instruction or only on FP instructions, whether there is a
-	 * pattern to occurrences etc. -dgibson 31/Mar/2003 */
+	 * pattern to occurrences etc. -dgibson 31/Mar/2003
+	 */
+
+	/*
+	 * If we support a HW FPU, we need to ensure the FP state
+	 * if flushed into the thread_struct before attempting
+	 * emulation
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU
+	flush_fp_to_thread(current);
+#endif
 	switch (do_mathemu(regs)) {
 	case 0:
 		emulate_single_step(regs);