2 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
index 11d8e0544ac..dc0a035e63b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ static int pseries_remove_memblock(unsigned long base, unsigned int memblock_siz
 {
         unsigned long start, start_pfn;
         struct zone *zone;
-        int ret;
+        int i, ret;
+        int sections_to_remove;
 
         start_pfn = base >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
@@ -97,9 +98,13 @@ static int pseries_remove_memblock(unsigned long base, unsigned int memblock_siz
          * to sysfs "state" file and we can't remove sysfs entries
          * while writing to it. So we have to defer it to here.
          */
-        ret = __remove_pages(zone, start_pfn, memblock_size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
-        if (ret)
-                return ret;
+        sections_to_remove = (memblock_size >> PAGE_SHIFT) / PAGES_PER_SECTION;
+        for (i = 0; i < sections_to_remove; i++) {
+                unsigned long pfn = start_pfn + i * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
+                ret = __remove_pages(zone, start_pfn,  PAGES_PER_SECTION);
+                if (ret)
+                        return ret;
+        }
 
         /*
          * Update memory regions for memory remove
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 7d0797475a4..56b758ae57d 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -369,11 +369,11 @@ int __remove_pages(struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn,
         BUG_ON(phys_start_pfn & ~PAGE_SECTION_MASK);
         BUG_ON(nr_pages % PAGES_PER_SECTION);
 
+        release_mem_region(phys_start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);
+
         sections_to_remove = nr_pages / PAGES_PER_SECTION;
         for (i = 0; i < sections_to_remove; i++) {
                 unsigned long pfn = phys_start_pfn + i*PAGES_PER_SECTION;
-                release_mem_region(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
-                                   PAGES_PER_SECTION << PAGE_SHIFT);
                 ret = __remove_section(zone, __pfn_to_section(pfn));
                 if (ret)
                         break;