diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c b/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c
index 0becefcf19b9..661a07217057 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
@@ -229,9 +230,20 @@ void arch_update_cpu_topology(void)
 	}
 }
 
-static void topology_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
+static int topology_kthread(void *data)
 {
 	arch_reinit_sched_domains();
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void topology_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	/* We can't call arch_reinit_sched_domains() from a multi-threaded
+	 * workqueue context since it may deadlock in case of cpu hotplug.
+	 * So we have to create a kernel thread in order to call
+	 * arch_reinit_sched_domains().
+	 */
+	kthread_run(topology_kthread, NULL, "topology_update");
 }
 
 void topology_schedule_update(void)