diff --git a/hotspot/make/linux/Makefile b/hotspot/make/linux/Makefile
index df450934810f2c227fb83c8c52d87c6066ddc7f1..f62c70db347b78102795be10d4774e4ea5829a11 100644
--- a/hotspot/make/linux/Makefile
+++ b/hotspot/make/linux/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (c) 1999, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 1999, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 # DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 #
 # This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -67,8 +67,12 @@ ifndef CC_INTERP
   endif
 endif
 # C1 is not ported on ppc64, so we cannot build a tiered VM:
-ifeq ($(ARCH),ppc64)
-  FORCE_TIERED=0
+# Notice: after 8046471 ARCH will be 'ppc' for top-level ppc64 builds but
+# 'ppc64' for HotSpot-only ppc64 builds. Need to detect both variants here!
+ifneq (,$(findstring $(ARCH), ppc ppc64))
+  ifeq ($(ARCH_DATA_MODEL), 64)
+    FORCE_TIERED=0
+  endif
 endif
 
 ifdef LP64
diff --git a/hotspot/make/linux/makefiles/defs.make b/hotspot/make/linux/makefiles/defs.make
index dc0bb08728dd4f5ee491d25ee65906ba5f73f4d3..a3ba3fbb4d221da42791b6da5315153a7b825c68 100644
--- a/hotspot/make/linux/makefiles/defs.make
+++ b/hotspot/make/linux/makefiles/defs.make
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2006, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2006, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 # DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 #
 # This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH), arm)
 endif
 
 # PPC
-ifneq (,$(findstring $(ARCH), ppc))
+# Notice: after 8046471 ARCH will be 'ppc' for top-level ppc64 builds but
+# 'ppc64' for HotSpot-only ppc64 builds. Need to detect both variants here!
+ifneq (,$(findstring $(ARCH), ppc ppc64))
   ifeq ($(ARCH_DATA_MODEL), 64)
     MAKE_ARGS        += LP64=1
     PLATFORM         = linux-ppc64