diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index fa498f4a707c..0ccf106c78b7 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d7c67fb1cf00b84829ae06fca04ad39408f156ba
+refs/heads/master: fb0fce3e554e5513aaa1c1c52b2ece11feea3c7d
diff --git a/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index 3c9296bcf960..e783453f910d 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -480,6 +480,16 @@ FTR_SECTION_ELSE
 	XVCPSGNDP32(0)
 
 ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)
+
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
+	b	denorm_done
+END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
+/*
+ * To denormalise we need to move a copy of the register to itself.
+ * For POWER8 we need to do that for all 64 VSX registers
+ */
+	XVCPSGNDP32(32)
+denorm_done:
 	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR0,r11
 	mtcrf	0x80,r9
 	ld	r9,PACA_EXGEN+EX_R9(r13)