diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index 9029afd1fa2a..f14f3c04ec7e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -1325,10 +1325,18 @@ EXC_VIRT_NONE(0x5800, 0x100)
 	std	r10,PACA_EXGEN+EX_R13(r13);		\
 	EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES_1(soft_nmi_common, _H)
 
+/*
+ * Branch to soft_nmi_interrupt using the emergency stack. The emergency
+ * stack is one that is usable by maskable interrupts so long as MSR_EE
+ * remains off. It is used for recovery when something has corrupted the
+ * normal kernel stack, for example. The "soft NMI" must not use the process
+ * stack because we want irq disabled sections to avoid touching the stack
+ * at all (other than PMU interrupts), so use the emergency stack for this,
+ * and run it entirely with interrupts hard disabled.
+ */
 EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(soft_nmi_common)
 	mr	r10,r1
 	ld	r1,PACAEMERGSP(r13)
-	ld	r1,PACA_NMI_EMERG_SP(r13)
 	subi	r1,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE
 	EXCEPTION_COMMON_NORET_STACK(PACA_EXGEN, 0x900,
 			system_reset, soft_nmi_interrupt,