diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index c8814177b716..d0ec887f05a2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ static int __init hugetlbpage_init(void)
 	huge_pgtable_cache = kmem_cache_create("hugepte_cache",
 					       HUGEPTE_TABLE_SIZE,
 					       HUGEPTE_TABLE_SIZE,
-					       SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
+					       0,
 					       zero_ctor, NULL);
 	if (! huge_pgtable_cache)
 		panic("hugetlbpage_init(): could not create hugepte cache\n");
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
index 5a7750147b7d..4416d5140c53 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ void pgtable_cache_init(void)
 		    "for size: %08x...\n", name, i, size);
 		pgtable_cache[i] = kmem_cache_create(name,
 						     size, size,
-						     SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
+						     0,
 						     zero_ctor,
 						     NULL);
 		if (! pgtable_cache[i])
diff --git a/arch/sparc64/mm/tsb.c b/arch/sparc64/mm/tsb.c
index 4be378d9a382..8eb8a7c76ec9 100644
--- a/arch/sparc64/mm/tsb.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/mm/tsb.c
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ void __init pgtable_cache_init(void)
 
 		tsb_caches[i] = kmem_cache_create(name,
 						  size, size,
-						  SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
+						  0,
 						  NULL, NULL);
 		if (!tsb_caches[i]) {
 			prom_printf("Could not create %s cache\n", name);