diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 35681c004beb..a7f2f5033a8b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 731f1872f4e8a0f1eabd49c3548207e79a421202
+refs/heads/master: 9597134218300c045cf219be3664615e97cb239c
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/trunk/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index 070ee4a3b225..ffc88cc00fda 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type,
 					      req_type & _PAGE_CACHE_MASK);
 	}
 
+	if (new_type)
+		*new_type = actual_type;
+
 	/*
 	 * For legacy reasons, some parts of the physical address range in the
 	 * legacy 1MB region is treated as non-RAM (even when listed as RAM in
@@ -356,9 +359,6 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type,
 	new->end	= end;
 	new->type	= actual_type;
 
-	if (new_type)
-		*new_type = actual_type;
-
 	spin_lock(&memtype_lock);
 
 	if (cached_entry && start >= cached_start)