diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 206fcd974cf2..a25b42fc64dc 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 15e09c0ecaab4a1b4a7ed69db536c38948b92279
+refs/heads/master: 786b32f892dc341b607445bdef29d8e41a840925
diff --git a/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 169d74cef157..93c875ae985a 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -606,8 +606,6 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
 		ptr = alloc_bootmem_pages_node(NODE_DATA(cpu_to_node(i)), size);
-		if (!ptr)
-			panic("Cannot allocate cpu data for CPU %d\n", i);
 
 		paca[i].data_offset = ptr - __per_cpu_start;
 		memcpy(ptr, __per_cpu_start, __per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start);