diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
index 11d8e0544ac0f52a09f0f8692d7a3c265f00a353..dc0a035e63bb5c549adbfa58660b15ef16abec90 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ static int pseries_remove_memblock(unsigned long base, unsigned int memblock_siz
 {
 	unsigned long start, start_pfn;
 	struct zone *zone;
-	int ret;
+	int i, ret;
+	int sections_to_remove;
 
 	start_pfn = base >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
@@ -97,9 +98,13 @@ static int pseries_remove_memblock(unsigned long base, unsigned int memblock_siz
 	 * to sysfs "state" file and we can't remove sysfs entries
 	 * while writing to it. So we have to defer it to here.
 	 */
-	ret = __remove_pages(zone, start_pfn, memblock_size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	sections_to_remove = (memblock_size >> PAGE_SHIFT) / PAGES_PER_SECTION;
+	for (i = 0; i < sections_to_remove; i++) {
+		unsigned long pfn = start_pfn + i * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
+		ret = __remove_pages(zone, start_pfn,  PAGES_PER_SECTION);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Update memory regions for memory remove
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 7d0797475a470a9ef76a0de07f8cdb3379ddf69f..56b758ae57d2eeb2230bbcaf3f8e8d4538a15a9d 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -369,11 +369,11 @@ int __remove_pages(struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn,
 	BUG_ON(phys_start_pfn & ~PAGE_SECTION_MASK);
 	BUG_ON(nr_pages % PAGES_PER_SECTION);
 
+	release_mem_region(phys_start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);
+
 	sections_to_remove = nr_pages / PAGES_PER_SECTION;
 	for (i = 0; i < sections_to_remove; i++) {
 		unsigned long pfn = phys_start_pfn + i*PAGES_PER_SECTION;
-		release_mem_region(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
-				   PAGES_PER_SECTION << PAGE_SHIFT);
 		ret = __remove_section(zone, __pfn_to_section(pfn));
 		if (ret)
 			break;