diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 8d0415b080bb..969f4abcc0be 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -1267,6 +1267,11 @@ static void __init early_reserve_mem(void)
 
 	reserve_map = (u64 *)(((unsigned long)initial_boot_params) +
 					initial_boot_params->off_mem_rsvmap);
+
+	/* before we do anything, lets reserve the dt blob */
+	lmb_reserve(__pa((unsigned long)initial_boot_params),
+		    initial_boot_params->totalsize);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
 	/* 
 	 * Handle the case where we might be booting from an old kexec
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index 2442361772e2..98e201c38d27 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -1950,11 +1950,7 @@ static void __init flatten_device_tree(void)
 	/* Version 16 is not backward compatible */
 	hdr->last_comp_version = 0x10;
 
-	/* Reserve the whole thing and copy the reserve map in, we
-	 * also bump mem_reserve_cnt to cause further reservations to
-	 * fail since it's too late.
-	 */
-	reserve_mem(RELOC(dt_header_start), hdr->totalsize);
+	/* Copy the reserve map in */
 	memcpy(rsvmap, RELOC(mem_reserve_map), sizeof(mem_reserve_map));
 
 #ifdef DEBUG_PROM
@@ -1967,6 +1963,9 @@ static void __init flatten_device_tree(void)
 				    RELOC(mem_reserve_map)[i].size);
 	}
 #endif
+	/* Bump mem_reserve_cnt to cause further reservations to fail
+	 * since it's too late.
+	 */
 	RELOC(mem_reserve_cnt) = MEM_RESERVE_MAP_SIZE;
 
 	prom_printf("Device tree strings 0x%x -> 0x%x\n",