diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/hash_low.S b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/hash_low.S
index b2c912e517b9..48415c857d80 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/hash_low.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/hash_low.S
@@ -411,30 +411,14 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT)
 	 * and we know there is a definite (although small) speed
 	 * advantage to putting the PTE in the primary PTEG, we always
 	 * put the PTE in the primary PTEG.
-	 *
-	 * In addition, we skip any slot that is mapping kernel text in
-	 * order to avoid a deadlock when not using BAT mappings if
-	 * trying to hash in the kernel hash code itself after it has
-	 * already taken the hash table lock. This works in conjunction
-	 * with pre-faulting of the kernel text.
-	 *
-	 * If the hash table bucket is full of kernel text entries, we'll
-	 * lockup here but that shouldn't happen
 	 */
 
-1:	lis	r4, (next_slot - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha	/* get next evict slot */
+	lis	r4, (next_slot - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha	/* get next evict slot */
 	lwz	r6, (next_slot - PAGE_OFFSET)@l(r4)
 	addi	r6,r6,HPTE_SIZE			/* search for candidate */
 	andi.	r6,r6,7*HPTE_SIZE
 	stw	r6,next_slot@l(r4)
 	add	r4,r3,r6
-	LDPTE	r0,HPTE_SIZE/2(r4)		/* get PTE second word */
-	clrrwi	r0,r0,12
-	lis	r6,etext@h
-	ori	r6,r6,etext@l			/* get etext */
-	tophys(r6,r6)
-	cmpl	cr0,r0,r6			/* compare and try again */
-	blt	1b
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 	/* Store PTE in PTEG */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
index 5c60dcade90a..23f60e97196e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ void __init setbat(int index, unsigned long virt, phys_addr_t phys,
 /*
  * Preload a translation in the hash table
  */
-void hash_preload(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ea)
+static void hash_preload(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ea)
 {
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h
index 1b6d39e9baed..0ad6d476d01d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h
@@ -91,8 +91,6 @@ void print_system_hash_info(void);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
 
-void hash_preload(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ea);
-
 extern void mapin_ram(void);
 extern void setbat(int index, unsigned long virt, phys_addr_t phys,
 		   unsigned int size, pgprot_t prot);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
index 888b9713a316..e0ec67a16887 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
@@ -112,10 +112,6 @@ static void __init __mapin_ram_chunk(unsigned long offset, unsigned long top)
 		ktext = ((char *)v >= _stext && (char *)v < etext) ||
 			((char *)v >= _sinittext && (char *)v < _einittext);
 		map_kernel_page(v, p, ktext ? PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT : PAGE_KERNEL);
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32
-		if (ktext)
-			hash_preload(&init_mm, v);
-#endif
 		v += PAGE_SIZE;
 		p += PAGE_SIZE;
 	}