diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_hash64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_hash64.c
index 4517aa43a8b1..b5b0fb97b9c0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_hash64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_hash64.c
@@ -93,12 +93,10 @@ void hpte_need_flush(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if we have an active batch on this CPU. If not, just
-	 * flush now and return. For now, we don global invalidates
-	 * in that case, might be worth testing the mm cpu mask though
-	 * and decide to use local invalidates instead...
+	 * flush now and return.
 	 */
 	if (!batch->active) {
-		flush_hash_page(vpn, rpte, psize, ssize, 0);
+		flush_hash_page(vpn, rpte, psize, ssize, mm_is_thread_local(mm));
 		put_cpu_var(ppc64_tlb_batch);
 		return;
 	}