diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index f152d64c10f3..b11e67d5ae19 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 556e58febf90c8cb1da25669d0892bf5fd2ddac2
+refs/heads/master: 75eedfed3e2d05563f44d2f69efb991fad95d7f1
diff --git a/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S b/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S
index 74fc3bc68604..784f56d4684c 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S
@@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@ _GLOBAL(hmt_start_secondary)
 	blr
 #endif
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES)
+#if defined(CONFIG_KEXEC) || (defined(CONFIG_SMP) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES))
 _GLOBAL(smp_release_cpus)
 	/* All secondary cpus are spinning on a common
 	 * spinloop, release them all now so they can start
diff --git a/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index fdb2fc649d72..5c40bb6788df 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -243,13 +243,17 @@ static void kexec_prepare_cpus(void)
 
 static void kexec_prepare_cpus(void)
 {
+	extern void smp_release_cpus(void);
 	/*
 	 * move the secondarys to us so that we can copy
 	 * the new kernel 0-0x100 safely
 	 *
 	 * do this if kexec in setup.c ?
+	 *
+	 * We need to release the cpus if we are ever going from an
+	 * UP to an SMP kernel.
 	 */
-	smp_relase_cpus();
+	smp_release_cpus();
 	if (ppc_md.cpu_irq_down)
 		ppc_md.cpu_irq_down();
 	local_irq_disable();