diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c
index 64733b9cb20a87ea48e245bf1bbd901d6e8c0f1d..64ca375278dcc832531955d3544e87b68c8c4d40 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c
@@ -363,17 +363,6 @@ pmd_t hash__pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	 * hash fault look at them.
 	 */
 	memset(pgtable, 0, PTE_FRAG_SIZE);
-	/*
-	 * Serialize against find_current_mm_pte variants which does lock-less
-	 * lookup in page tables with local interrupts disabled. For huge pages
-	 * it casts pmd_t to pte_t. Since format of pte_t is different from
-	 * pmd_t we want to prevent transit from pmd pointing to page table
-	 * to pmd pointing to huge page (and back) while interrupts are disabled.
-	 * We clear pmd to possibly replace it with page table pointer in
-	 * different code paths. So make sure we wait for the parallel
-	 * find_curren_mm_pte to finish.
-	 */
-	serialize_against_pte_lookup(mm);
 	return old_pmd;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
index e0bb69c616e4a2267dddb9da5e59574d06ea8b52..127325ead50538e99a8b4ca1e723563db6b31def 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
@@ -109,14 +109,6 @@ pmd_t pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 
 	old_pmd = pmd_hugepage_update(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, _PAGE_PRESENT, _PAGE_INVALID);
 	flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
-	/*
-	 * This ensures that generic code that rely on IRQ disabling
-	 * to prevent a parallel THP split work as expected.
-	 *
-	 * Marking the entry with _PAGE_INVALID && ~_PAGE_PRESENT requires
-	 * a special case check in pmd_access_permitted.
-	 */
-	serialize_against_pte_lookup(vma->vm_mm);
 	return __pmd(old_pmd);
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
index 8f9edf07063ad53914d59b451cedcc0a99bb6417..dfb9fe92aea8c0c740f2b4d11cee668d06a4188f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
@@ -962,7 +962,13 @@ pmd_t radix__pmdp_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addre
 	pmd = *pmdp;
 	pmd_clear(pmdp);
 
-	/*FIXME!!  Verify whether we need this kick below */
+	/*
+	 * pmdp collapse_flush need to ensure that there are no parallel gup
+	 * walk after this call. This is needed so that we can have stable
+	 * page ref count when collapsing a page. We don't allow a collapse page
+	 * if we have gup taken on the page. We can ensure that by sending IPI
+	 * because gup walk happens with IRQ disabled.
+	 */
 	serialize_against_pte_lookup(vma->vm_mm);
 
 	radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd(vma->vm_mm, address);
@@ -1023,17 +1029,6 @@ pmd_t radix__pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 	old = radix__pmd_hugepage_update(mm, addr, pmdp, ~0UL, 0);
 	old_pmd = __pmd(old);
-	/*
-	 * Serialize against find_current_mm_pte which does lock-less
-	 * lookup in page tables with local interrupts disabled. For huge pages
-	 * it casts pmd_t to pte_t. Since format of pte_t is different from
-	 * pmd_t we want to prevent transit from pmd pointing to page table
-	 * to pmd pointing to huge page (and back) while interrupts are disabled.
-	 * We clear pmd to possibly replace it with page table pointer in
-	 * different code paths. So make sure we wait for the parallel
-	 * find_current_mm_pte to finish.
-	 */
-	serialize_against_pte_lookup(mm);
 	return old_pmd;
 }