1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index fdb2fc649d72..5c40bb6788df 100644
--- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/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();