diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index 7a7793211ae73c3ffe0c56fdbc1d4c006bd041f8..7e12ef70808f7d80d87f58828d0f34fa73909094 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <asm/current.h>
 #include <asm/machdep.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+#include <asm/firmware.h>
 #include <asm/paca.h>
 #include <asm/mmu.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>	/* _end */
@@ -64,31 +65,6 @@ int default_machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
 		if (image->segment[i].mem < __pa(_end))
 			return -ETXTBSY;
 
-	/*
-	 * For non-LPAR, we absolutely can not overwrite the mmu hash
-	 * table, since we are still using the bolted entries in it to
-	 * do the copy.  Check that here.
-	 *
-	 * It is safe if the end is below the start of the blocked
-	 * region (end <= low), or if the beginning is after the
-	 * end of the blocked region (begin >= high).  Use the
-	 * boolean identity !(a || b)  === (!a && !b).
-	 */
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64
-	if (htab_address) {
-		low = __pa(htab_address);
-		high = low + htab_size_bytes;
-
-		for (i = 0; i < image->nr_segments; i++) {
-			begin = image->segment[i].mem;
-			end = begin + image->segment[i].memsz;
-
-			if ((begin < high) && (end > low))
-				return -ETXTBSY;
-		}
-	}
-#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64 */
-
 	/* We also should not overwrite the tce tables */
 	for_each_node_by_type(node, "pci") {
 		basep = of_get_property(node, "linux,tce-base", NULL);
@@ -329,11 +305,14 @@ struct paca_struct kexec_paca;
 /* Our assembly helper, in misc_64.S */
 extern void kexec_sequence(void *newstack, unsigned long start,
 			   void *image, void *control,
-			   void (*clear_all)(void)) __noreturn;
+			   void (*clear_all)(void),
+			   bool copy_with_mmu_off) __noreturn;
 
 /* too late to fail here */
 void default_machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 {
+	bool copy_with_mmu_off;
+
 	/* prepare control code if any */
 
 	/*
@@ -371,13 +350,29 @@ void default_machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 	/* XXX: If anyone does 'dynamic lppacas' this will also need to be
 	 * switched to a static version!
 	 */
+	/*
+	 * On Book3S, the copy must happen with the MMU off if we are either
+	 * using Radix page tables or we are not in an LPAR since we can
+	 * overwrite the page tables while copying.
+	 *
+	 * In an LPAR, we keep the MMU on otherwise we can't access beyond
+	 * the RMA. On BookE there is no real MMU off mode, so we have to
+	 * keep it enabled as well (but then we have bolted TLB entries).
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E
+	copy_with_mmu_off = false;
+#else
+	copy_with_mmu_off = radix_enabled() ||
+		!(firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR) ||
+		  firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_PS3_LV1));
+#endif
 
 	/* Some things are best done in assembly.  Finding globals with
 	 * a toc is easier in C, so pass in what we can.
 	 */
 	kexec_sequence(&kexec_stack, image->start, image,
 		       page_address(image->control_code_page),
-		       mmu_cleanup_all);
+		       mmu_cleanup_all, copy_with_mmu_off);
 	/* NOTREACHED */
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
index 939e3f50a345fe080539b97b429249a24e36779c..9f0bed214bcb891d48078cfa094c3c1792a3a0d3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
@@ -592,7 +592,8 @@ real_mode:	/* assume normal blr return */
 #endif
 
 /*
- * kexec_sequence(newstack, start, image, control, clear_all())
+ * kexec_sequence(newstack, start, image, control, clear_all(),
+	          copy_with_mmu_off)
  *
  * does the grungy work with stack switching and real mode switches
  * also does simple calls to other code
@@ -628,7 +629,7 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_sequence)
 	mr	r29,r5			/* image (virt) */
 	mr	r28,r6			/* control, unused */
 	mr	r27,r7			/* clear_all() fn desc */
-	mr	r26,r8			/* spare */
+	mr	r26,r8			/* copy_with_mmu_off */
 	lhz	r25,PACAHWCPUID(r13)	/* get our phys cpu from paca */
 
 	/* disable interrupts, we are overwriting kernel data next */
@@ -640,15 +641,24 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_sequence)
 	mtmsrd	r3,1
 #endif
 
+	/* We need to turn the MMU off unless we are in hash mode
+	 * under a hypervisor
+	 */
+	cmpdi	r26,0
+	beq	1f
+	bl	real_mode
+1:
 	/* copy dest pages, flush whole dest image */
 	mr	r3,r29
 	bl	kexec_copy_flush	/* (image) */
 
-	/* turn off mmu */
+	/* turn off mmu now if not done earlier */
+	cmpdi	r26,0
+	bne	1f
 	bl	real_mode
 
 	/* copy  0x100 bytes starting at start to 0 */
-	li	r3,0
+1:	li	r3,0
 	mr	r4,r30		/* start, aka phys mem offset */
 	li	r5,0x100
 	li	r6,0