diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/msi_bitmap.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/msi_bitmap.h
index 97ac3f46ae0d74a3b13c63acd2c764b1149d3aea..1ec7125551f1e2138a273b1348d0006430df3204 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/msi_bitmap.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/msi_bitmap.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ struct msi_bitmap {
 	unsigned long		*bitmap;
 	spinlock_t		lock;
 	unsigned int		irq_count;
+	bool		 	bitmap_from_slab;
 };
 
 int msi_bitmap_alloc_hwirqs(struct msi_bitmap *bmp, int num);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/msi_bitmap.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/msi_bitmap.c
index 73b64c73505bee493809dccbf886af0108c1129f..1a826f3b442425a7ec04b17a45d85b4bec760a1c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/msi_bitmap.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/msi_bitmap.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/bitmap.h>
+#include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <asm/msi_bitmap.h>
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 
@@ -122,7 +123,15 @@ int msi_bitmap_alloc(struct msi_bitmap *bmp, unsigned int irq_count,
 	size = BITS_TO_LONGS(irq_count) * sizeof(long);
 	pr_debug("msi_bitmap: allocator bitmap size is 0x%x bytes\n", size);
 
-	bmp->bitmap = zalloc_maybe_bootmem(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	bmp->bitmap_from_slab = slab_is_available();
+	if (bmp->bitmap_from_slab)
+		bmp->bitmap = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	else {
+		bmp->bitmap = memblock_virt_alloc(size, 0);
+		/* the bitmap won't be freed from memblock allocator */
+		kmemleak_not_leak(bmp->bitmap);
+	}
+
 	if (!bmp->bitmap) {
 		pr_debug("msi_bitmap: ENOMEM allocating allocator bitmap!\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -138,7 +147,8 @@ int msi_bitmap_alloc(struct msi_bitmap *bmp, unsigned int irq_count,
 
 void msi_bitmap_free(struct msi_bitmap *bmp)
 {
-	/* we can't free the bitmap we don't know if it's bootmem etc. */
+	if (bmp->bitmap_from_slab)
+		kfree(bmp->bitmap);
 	of_node_put(bmp->of_node);
 	bmp->bitmap = NULL;
 }
@@ -203,8 +213,6 @@ static void __init test_basics(void)
 
 	/* Clients may WARN_ON bitmap == NULL for "not-allocated" */
 	WARN_ON(bmp.bitmap != NULL);
-
-	kfree(bmp.bitmap);
 }
 
 static void __init test_of_node(void)