diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 48aeb55..fba012a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -82,11 +82,25 @@ static int __init early_parse_mem(char *p)
 }
 early_param("mem", early_parse_mem);
 
+/*
+ * overlaps_initrd - check for overlap with page aligned extension of
+ * initrd.
+ */
+static inline int overlaps_initrd(unsigned long start, unsigned long size)
+{
+	if (!initrd_start)
+		return 0;
+
+	return	(start + size) > _ALIGN_DOWN(initrd_start, PAGE_SIZE) &&
+			start <= _ALIGN_UP(initrd_end, PAGE_SIZE);
+}
+
 /**
  * move_device_tree - move tree to an unused area, if needed.
  *
  * The device tree may be allocated beyond our memory limit, or inside the
- * crash kernel region for kdump. If so, move it out of the way.
+ * crash kernel region for kdump, or within the page aligned range of initrd.
+ * If so, move it out of the way.
  */
 static void __init move_device_tree(void)
 {
@@ -99,7 +113,8 @@ static void __init move_device_tree(void)
 	size = be32_to_cpu(initial_boot_params->totalsize);
 
 	if ((memory_limit && (start + size) > PHYSICAL_START + memory_limit) ||
-			overlaps_crashkernel(start, size)) {
+			overlaps_crashkernel(start, size) ||
+			overlaps_initrd(start, size)) {
 		p = __va(memblock_alloc(size, PAGE_SIZE));
 		memcpy(p, initial_boot_params, size);
 		initial_boot_params = (struct boot_param_header *)p;
@@ -555,7 +570,9 @@ static void __init early_reserve_mem(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
 	/* then reserve the initrd, if any */
 	if (initrd_start && (initrd_end > initrd_start))
-		memblock_reserve(__pa(initrd_start), initrd_end - initrd_start);
+		memblock_reserve(_ALIGN_DOWN(__pa(initrd_start), PAGE_SIZE),
+			_ALIGN_UP(initrd_end, PAGE_SIZE) -
+			_ALIGN_DOWN(initrd_start, PAGE_SIZE));
 #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
index d65b591..5de0f25 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
@@ -223,21 +223,6 @@ void free_initmem(void)
 #undef FREESEC
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
-void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
-{
-	if (start < end)
-		printk ("Freeing initrd memory: %ldk freed\n", (end - start) >> 10);
-	for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) {
-		ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(start));
-		init_page_count(virt_to_page(start));
-		free_page(start);
-		totalram_pages++;
-	}
-}
-#endif
-
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_8xx /* No 8xx specific .c file to put that in ... */
 void setup_initial_memory_limit(phys_addr_t first_memblock_base,
 				phys_addr_t first_memblock_size)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
index 6374b21..f6dbb4c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -99,20 +99,6 @@ void free_initmem(void)
 		((unsigned long)__init_end - (unsigned long)__init_begin) >> 10);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
-void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
-{
-	if (start < end)
-		printk ("Freeing initrd memory: %ldk freed\n", (end - start) >> 10);
-	for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) {
-		ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(start));
-		init_page_count(virt_to_page(start));
-		free_page(start);
-		totalram_pages++;
-	}
-}
-#endif
-
 static void pgd_ctor(void *addr)
 {
 	memset(addr, 0, PGD_TABLE_SIZE);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 57e545b..29d4dde 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -382,6 +382,25 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 	mem_init_done = 1;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
+void __init free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+	if (start >= end)
+		return;
+
+	start = _ALIGN_DOWN(start, PAGE_SIZE);
+	end = _ALIGN_UP(end, PAGE_SIZE);
+	pr_info("Freeing initrd memory: %ldk freed\n", (end - start) >> 10);
+
+	for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) {
+		ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(start));
+		init_page_count(virt_to_page(start));
+		free_page(start);
+		totalram_pages++;
+	}
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * This is called when a page has been modified by the kernel.
  * It just marks the page as not i-cache clean.  We do the i-cache
