diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 5f8a5d84dbbe..43102756304c 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -396,9 +396,6 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	bool
 
-config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
-	bool
-
 config HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
 	bool
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 0184d0a204da..2b1033f13210 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ config PPC
 	select HAVE_PERF_REGS
 	select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
 	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
-	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE	if HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	select HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
 	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 	select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE		if PPC_BOOK3S_64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h
index b2c0be93929d..7f3a8b902325 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h
@@ -26,6 +26,17 @@
 
 #define tlb_flush tlb_flush
 extern void tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb);
+/*
+ * book3s:
+ * Hash does not use the linux page-tables, so we can avoid
+ * the TLB invalidate for page-table freeing, Radix otoh does use the
+ * page-tables and needs the TLBI.
+ *
+ * nohash:
+ * We still do TLB invalidate in the __pte_free_tlb routine before we
+ * add the page table pages to mmu gather table batch.
+ */
+#define tlb_needs_table_invalidate()	radix_enabled()
 
 /* Get the generic bits... */
 #include <asm-generic/tlb.h>
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index eb24cb1afc11..18e9fb6fcf1b 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ config SPARC64
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES
 	select HAVE_KPROBES
 	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE if SMP
-	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE if HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
 	select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h
index a2f3fa61ee36..8cb8f3833239 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h
@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ void flush_tlb_pending(void);
 #define __tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, ptep, address) do { } while (0)
 #define tlb_flush(tlb)	flush_tlb_pending()
 
+/*
+ * SPARC64's hardware TLB fill does not use the Linux page-tables
+ * and therefore we don't need a TLBI when freeing page-table pages.
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
+#define tlb_needs_table_invalidate()	(false)
+#endif
+
 #include <asm-generic/tlb.h>
 
 #endif /* _SPARC64_TLB_H */
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
index 04c0644006fd..c716ea81e653 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -137,13 +137,6 @@
  *  When used, an architecture is expected to provide __tlb_remove_table()
  *  which does the actual freeing of these pages.
  *
- *  HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
- *
- *  This makes HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE avoid calling tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() before
- *  freeing the page-table pages. This can be avoided if you use
- *  HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE and your architecture does _NOT_ use the Linux
- *  page-tables natively.
- *
  *  MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
  *
  *  Use this if your architecture lacks an efficient flush_tlb_range().
@@ -189,8 +182,23 @@ struct mmu_table_batch {
 
 extern void tlb_remove_table(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table);
 
+/*
+ * This allows an architecture that does not use the linux page-tables for
+ * hardware to skip the TLBI when freeing page tables.
+ */
+#ifndef tlb_needs_table_invalidate
+#define tlb_needs_table_invalidate() (true)
 #endif
 
+#else
+
+#ifdef tlb_needs_table_invalidate
+#error tlb_needs_table_invalidate() requires HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
+#endif
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE */
+
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
 /*
  * If we can't allocate a page to make a big batch of page pointers
diff --git a/mm/mmu_gather.c b/mm/mmu_gather.c
index 7d70e5c78f97..7c1b8f67af7b 100644
--- a/mm/mmu_gather.c
+++ b/mm/mmu_gather.c
@@ -102,14 +102,14 @@ bool __tlb_remove_page_size(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *page, int page_
  */
 static inline void tlb_table_invalidate(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
 {
-#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
-	/*
-	 * Invalidate page-table caches used by hardware walkers. Then we still
-	 * need to RCU-sched wait while freeing the pages because software
-	 * walkers can still be in-flight.
-	 */
-	tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly(tlb);
-#endif
+	if (tlb_needs_table_invalidate()) {
+		/*
+		 * Invalidate page-table caches used by hardware walkers. Then
+		 * we still need to RCU-sched wait while freeing the pages
+		 * because software walkers can still be in-flight.
+		 */
+		tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly(tlb);
+	}
 }
 
 static void tlb_remove_table_smp_sync(void *arg)