diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/8xx.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/8xx.c
index 0df9fe29dd56..5348e1f9eb94 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/8xx.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/8xx.c
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ void mmu_mark_initmem_nx(void)
 	unsigned long boundary = strict_kernel_rwx_enabled() ? sinittext : etext8;
 	unsigned long einittext8 = ALIGN(__pa(_einittext), SZ_8M);
 
-	mmu_mapin_ram_chunk(0, boundary, PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT, false);
-	mmu_mapin_ram_chunk(boundary, einittext8, PAGE_KERNEL, false);
+	if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled_or_kfence())
+		mmu_mapin_ram_chunk(boundary, einittext8, PAGE_KERNEL, false);
 
 	mmu_pin_tlb(block_mapped_ram, false);
 }
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
index f28859771440..502e3d3d1dbf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@ void mark_initmem_nx(void)
 	unsigned long numpages = PFN_UP((unsigned long)_einittext) -
 				 PFN_DOWN((unsigned long)_sinittext);
 
-	if (v_block_mapped((unsigned long)_sinittext)) {
-		mmu_mark_initmem_nx();
-	} else {
+	mmu_mark_initmem_nx();
+
+	if (!v_block_mapped((unsigned long)_sinittext)) {
 		set_memory_nx((unsigned long)_sinittext, numpages);
 		set_memory_rw((unsigned long)_sinittext, numpages);
 	}