diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index b7063669f972..8dffed317013 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 /*
  * Most if the context management is out of line
  */
-extern void mmu_context_init(void);
 extern int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm);
 
@@ -23,6 +22,12 @@ extern void switch_stab(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern void switch_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern void set_context(unsigned long id, pgd_t *pgd);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
+static inline void mmu_context_init(void) { }
+#else
+extern void mmu_context_init(void);
+#endif
+
 /*
  * switch_mm is the entry point called from the architecture independent
  * code in kernel/sched.c
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 91b89b8d63d8..325dc5b2e626 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -534,6 +534,10 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 #endif
 
 	paging_init();
+
+	/* Initialize the MMU context management stuff */
+	mmu_context_init();
+
 	ppc64_boot_msg(0x15, "Setup Done");
 }