diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h
index a503da9d56f38712786a6757fb223dfaf9c70b1b..821ed48c10edbb8d85480799bcf4f572bfc8ae88 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h
@@ -9,12 +9,6 @@
  * Reserve to the end of the FWNMI area, see head_64.S */
 #define KDUMP_RESERVE_LIMIT	0x10000 /* 64K */
 
-/*
- * Used to differentiate between relocatable kdump kernel and other
- * kernels
- */
-#define KDUMP_SIGNATURE	0xfeed1234
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
 
 #define KDUMP_TRAMPOLINE_START	0x0100
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index e6efec788c4d0d98706c729666e1ab779feee6f9..3c4ca046e854c9e88ab587c1672eae97b2c69c4a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -255,14 +255,11 @@ static union thread_union kexec_stack
 /* Our assembly helper, in kexec_stub.S */
 extern NORET_TYPE void kexec_sequence(void *newstack, unsigned long start,
 					void *image, void *control,
-					void (*clear_all)(void),
-					unsigned long kdump_flag) ATTRIB_NORET;
+					void (*clear_all)(void)) ATTRIB_NORET;
 
 /* too late to fail here */
 void default_machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 {
-	unsigned long kdump_flag = 0;
-
 	/* prepare control code if any */
 
 	/*
@@ -275,8 +272,6 @@ void default_machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 
 	if (crashing_cpu == -1)
 		kexec_prepare_cpus();
-	else
-		kdump_flag = KDUMP_SIGNATURE;
 
 	/* switch to a staticly allocated stack.  Based on irq stack code.
 	 * XXX: the task struct will likely be invalid once we do the copy!
@@ -289,7 +284,7 @@ void default_machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 	 */
 	kexec_sequence(&kexec_stack, image->start, image,
 			page_address(image->control_code_page),
-			ppc_md.hpte_clear_all, kdump_flag);
+			ppc_md.hpte_clear_all);
 	/* NOTREACHED */
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
index a243fd072a77b08e70f99fa5d41a33ee9943619a..3053fe5c62f2a67694d430187df900495c19531b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
@@ -611,12 +611,10 @@ real_mode:	/* assume normal blr return */
 
 
 /*
- * kexec_sequence(newstack, start, image, control, clear_all(), kdump_flag)
+ * kexec_sequence(newstack, start, image, control, clear_all())
  *
  * does the grungy work with stack switching and real mode switches
  * also does simple calls to other code
- *
- * kdump_flag says whether the next kernel should be a kdump kernel.
  */
 
 _GLOBAL(kexec_sequence)
@@ -649,7 +647,7 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_sequence)
 	mr	r29,r5			/* image (virt) */
 	mr	r28,r6			/* control, unused */
 	mr	r27,r7			/* clear_all() fn desc */
-	mr	r26,r8			/* kdump flag */
+	mr	r26,r8			/* spare */
 	lhz	r25,PACAHWCPUID(r13)	/* get our phys cpu from paca */
 
 	/* disable interrupts, we are overwriting kernel data next */
@@ -711,6 +709,5 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_sequence)
 	mr	r4,r30	# start, aka phys mem offset
 	mtlr	4
 	li	r5,0
-	mr	r6,r26			/* kdump_flag */
-	blr	/* image->start(physid, image->start, 0, kdump_flag); */
+	blr	/* image->start(physid, image->start, 0); */
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */