diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
index 5b7038f..a685652 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
@@ -92,15 +92,13 @@
 		     : "memory" );
 }
 
-void slb_flush_and_rebolt(void)
+static void __slb_flush_and_rebolt(void)
 {
 	/* If you change this make sure you change SLB_NUM_BOLTED
 	 * appropriately too. */
 	unsigned long linear_llp, vmalloc_llp, lflags, vflags;
 	unsigned long ksp_esid_data, ksp_vsid_data;
 
-	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
-
 	linear_llp = mmu_psize_defs[mmu_linear_psize].sllp;
 	vmalloc_llp = mmu_psize_defs[mmu_vmalloc_psize].sllp;
 	lflags = SLB_VSID_KERNEL | linear_llp;
@@ -117,12 +115,6 @@
 		ksp_vsid_data = get_slb_shadow()->save_area[2].vsid;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * We can't take a PMU exception in the following code, so hard
-	 * disable interrupts.
-	 */
-	hard_irq_disable();
-
 	/* We need to do this all in asm, so we're sure we don't touch
 	 * the stack between the slbia and rebolting it. */
 	asm volatile("isync\n"
@@ -139,6 +131,21 @@
 		     : "memory");
 }
 
+void slb_flush_and_rebolt(void)
+{
+
+	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
+
+	/*
+	 * We can't take a PMU exception in the following code, so hard
+	 * disable interrupts.
+	 */
+	hard_irq_disable();
+
+	__slb_flush_and_rebolt();
+	get_paca()->slb_cache_ptr = 0;
+}
+
 void slb_vmalloc_update(void)
 {
 	unsigned long vflags;
@@ -180,12 +187,20 @@
 /* Flush all user entries from the segment table of the current processor. */
 void switch_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-	unsigned long offset = get_paca()->slb_cache_ptr;
+	unsigned long offset;
 	unsigned long slbie_data = 0;
 	unsigned long pc = KSTK_EIP(tsk);
 	unsigned long stack = KSTK_ESP(tsk);
 	unsigned long unmapped_base;
 
+	/*
+	 * We need interrupts hard-disabled here, not just soft-disabled,
+	 * so that a PMU interrupt can't occur, which might try to access
+	 * user memory (to get a stack trace) and possible cause an SLB miss
+	 * which would update the slb_cache/slb_cache_ptr fields in the PACA.
+	 */
+	hard_irq_disable();
+	offset = get_paca()->slb_cache_ptr;
 	if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NO_SLBIE_B) &&
 	    offset <= SLB_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
 		int i;
@@ -200,7 +215,7 @@
 		}
 		asm volatile("isync" : : : "memory");
 	} else {
-		slb_flush_and_rebolt();
+		__slb_flush_and_rebolt();
 	}
 
 	/* Workaround POWER5 < DD2.1 issue */