diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
index 0ed2c7e..8b642ab 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
@@ -543,12 +543,21 @@
 	addi	r3,r3,L1_CACHE_BYTES
 	bdnz	0b
 	sync
+#ifndef CONFIG_44x
+	/* We don't flush the icache on 44x. Those have a virtual icache
+	 * and we don't have access to the virtual address here (it's
+	 * not the page vaddr but where it's mapped in user space). The
+	 * flushing of the icache on these is handled elsewhere, when
+	 * a change in the address space occurs, before returning to
+	 * user space
+	 */
 	mtctr	r4
 1:	icbi	0,r6
 	addi	r6,r6,L1_CACHE_BYTES
 	bdnz	1b
 	sync
 	isync
+#endif /* CONFIG_44x */
 	blr
 
 /*