diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 45eef1b89b7c..32f341e4dfb2 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 05f209e7b936a48e341d36831079116a06658ccc
+refs/heads/master: e087edd8c056292191bb989baf49f83ee509e624
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/trunk/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index e6d36b490250..03da9030d0ee 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -962,6 +962,13 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
 		begin, PAGE_ALIGN(end));
 	set_memory_np(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 #else
+	/*
+	 * We just marked the kernel text read only above, now that
+	 * we are going to free part of that, we need to make that
+	 * writeable first.
+	 */
+	set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10);
 
 	for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {