diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index a0bcec3614e18746747dce752ef33cb2a898a768..583af70c4b144a47dbe06549b3df409fe46a27cf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/init_task.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/current.h>
@@ -216,9 +217,32 @@ static void kexec_prepare_cpus_wait(int wait_state)
 	mb();
 }
 
-static void kexec_prepare_cpus(void)
+/*
+ * We need to make sure each present CPU is online.  The next kernel will scan
+ * the device tree and assume primary threads are online and query secondary
+ * threads via RTAS to online them if required.  If we don't online primary
+ * threads, they will be stuck.  However, we also online secondary threads as we
+ * may be using 'cede offline'.  In this case RTAS doesn't see the secondary
+ * threads as offline -- and again, these CPUs will be stuck.
+ *
+ * So, we online all CPUs that should be running, including secondary threads.
+ */
+static void wake_offline_cpus(void)
 {
+	int cpu = 0;
+
+	for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
+		if (!cpu_online(cpu)) {
+			printk(KERN_INFO "kexec: Waking offline cpu %d.\n",
+			       cpu);
+			cpu_up(cpu);
+		}
+	}
+}
 
+static void kexec_prepare_cpus(void)
+{
+	wake_offline_cpus();
 	smp_call_function(kexec_smp_down, NULL, /* wait */0);
 	local_irq_disable();
 	mb(); /* make sure IRQs are disabled before we say they are */