diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
index 50f48f0c5630dea049667a419b3e0fd28b9b9c2d..0f8bb86995b405a6bfaf6da978c955aebf805304 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
 
 	  This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
 
+config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+        bool "Debug page memory allocations"
+        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND && PPC32
+        help
+          Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
+          This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
+          of memory corruptions.
+
+
 config HCALL_STATS
 	bool "Hypervisor call instrumentation"
 	depends on PPC_PSERIES && DEBUG_FS
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
index 0e53ca8f02fb88a4f14de9d40cf97dfc6d6d2722..5fce6ccecb8dee301d98e5ca97c7d9290a5540d9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ void MMU_setup(void)
 	if (strstr(cmd_line, "noltlbs")) {
 		__map_without_ltlbs = 1;
 	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+	__map_without_bats = 1;
+	__map_without_ltlbs = 1;
+#endif
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
index f75f2fc7bc7eeb070b15df93dc58a966d4d2e143..8a2fc16ee0a7564cbc2a794f17bb070e69e07b49 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
@@ -451,3 +451,55 @@ mm_ptov (unsigned long paddr)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+
+static int __change_page_attr(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
+{
+	pte_t *kpte;
+	pmd_t *kpmd;
+	unsigned long address;
+
+	BUG_ON(PageHighMem(page));
+	address = (unsigned long)page_address(page);
+
+	if (v_mapped_by_bats(address) || v_mapped_by_tlbcam(address))
+		return 0;
+	if (!get_pteptr(&init_mm, address, &kpte, &kpmd))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	set_pte_at(&init_mm, address, kpte, mk_pte(page, prot));
+	wmb();
+	flush_HPTE(0, address, pmd_val(*kpmd));
+	pte_unmap(kpte);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Change the page attributes of an page in the linear mapping.
+ *
+ * THIS CONFLICTS WITH BAT MAPPINGS, DEBUG USE ONLY
+ */
+static int change_page_attr(struct page *page, int numpages, pgprot_t prot)
+{
+	int i, err = 0;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	for (i = 0; i < numpages; i++, page++) {
+		err = __change_page_attr(page, prot);
+		if (err)
+			break;
+	}
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	return err;
+}
+
+
+void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
+{
+	if (PageHighMem(page))
+		return;
+
+	change_page_attr(page, numpages, enable ? PAGE_KERNEL : __pgprot(0));
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c
index 7cceb2c44cb911936c40dc96ea57f0ba0accf9c7..05066674a7a02fa2b07835d3068c15e951013173 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c
@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ unsigned long __init mmu_mapin_ram(void)
 	unsigned long max_size = (256<<20);
 	unsigned long align;
 
-	if (__map_without_bats)
+	if (__map_without_bats) {
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "RAM mapped without BATs\n");
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	/* Set up BAT2 and if necessary BAT3 to cover RAM. */
 
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/cacheflush.h b/include/asm-powerpc/cacheflush.h
index 08e93e7892191d40793ea5e6f63ec43a035c65a8..ba667a383b8c8024df596df085cacf444b027db7 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/cacheflush.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/cacheflush.h
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ extern void flush_dcache_phys_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop);
 	memcpy(dst, src, len)
 
 
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+/* internal debugging function */
+void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable);
+#endif
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_CACHEFLUSH_H */