diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index 273acfad65ae0a766d51fb478c51a2691ceb5380..555044c310b2accd23aff1d66154a71c4af69f4d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #include <asm/page.h>
 
 extern struct kmem_cache *hugepte_cache;
-extern void __init reserve_hugetlb_gpages(void);
 
 static inline pte_t *hugepd_page(hugepd_t hpd)
 {
@@ -153,14 +152,24 @@ static inline void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page)
 }
 
 #else /* ! CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
-static inline void reserve_hugetlb_gpages(void)
-{
-	pr_err("Cannot reserve gpages without hugetlb enabled\n");
-}
 static inline void flush_hugetlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				      unsigned long vmaddr)
 {
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
+
+
+/*
+ * FSL Book3E platforms require special gpage handling - the gpages
+ * are reserved early in the boot process by memblock instead of via
+ * the .dts as on IBM platforms.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE) && defined(CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E)
+extern void __init reserve_hugetlb_gpages(void);
+#else
+static inline void reserve_hugetlb_gpages(void)
+{
+}
 #endif
 
 #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_HUGETLB_H */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index fb9bb46e7e881a584c1532a6768622395a5045be..4cb8f1e9d0442a2a6631d93bc4ce03a05e69ba17 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 #include <linux/pci.h>
 #include <linux/lockdep.h>
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
+#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
+
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/kdump.h>
 #include <asm/prom.h>
@@ -64,6 +66,7 @@
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/code-patching.h>
 #include <asm/kvm_ppc.h>
+#include <asm/hugetlb.h>
 
 #include "setup.h"
 
@@ -217,6 +220,13 @@ void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr)
 	/* Initialize the hash table or TLB handling */
 	early_init_mmu();
 
+	/*
+	 * Reserve any gigantic pages requested on the command line.
+	 * memblock needs to have been initialized by the time this is
+	 * called since this will reserve memory.
+	 */
+	reserve_hugetlb_gpages();
+
 	DBG(" <- early_setup()\n");
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 7c7cb9797270543cd8a9c6bd5f971882ea124d61..79c575d3dd63d4980d57b77c969b48fbc9874295 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ unsigned int HPAGE_SHIFT;
 
 /*
  * Tracks gpages after the device tree is scanned and before the
- * huge_boot_pages list is ready.  On 64-bit implementations, this is
- * just used to track 16G pages and so is a single array.  32-bit
- * implementations may have more than one gpage size due to limitations
- * of the memory allocators, so we need multiple arrays
+ * huge_boot_pages list is ready.  On non-Freescale implementations, this is
+ * just used to track 16G pages and so is a single array.  FSL-based
+ * implementations may have more than one gpage size, so we need multiple
+ * arrays
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
 #define MAX_NUMBER_GPAGES	128