diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
index cea8496091ffbd1cb2437061cb1f7772f3b8bbc3..2f1b6c5f8174f4a4759086f21668dda5c8477b1d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
@@ -523,6 +523,17 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_NESTED(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR,CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR,946)
 #define PPC440EP_ERR42
 #endif
 
+/* The following stops all load and store data streams associated with stream
+ * ID (ie. streams created explicitly).  The embedded and server mnemonics for
+ * dcbt are different so we use machine "power4" here explicitly.
+ */
+#define DCBT_STOP_ALL_STREAM_IDS(scratch)	\
+.machine push ;					\
+.machine "power4" ;				\
+       lis     scratch,0x60000000@h;		\
+       dcbt    r0,scratch,0b01010;		\
+.machine pop
+
 /*
  * toreal/fromreal/tophys/tovirt macros. 32-bit BookE makes them
  * keep the address intact to be compatible with code shared with
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 0e9095e47b5b0098da33aeb262694fa8d5e0c0ef..246b11c4fe7eda803a4c076c078c5afdcff04590 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -501,6 +501,13 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	ldarx	r6,0,r1
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
+/* Cancel all explict user streams as they will have no use after context
+ * switch and will stop the HW from creating streams itself
+ */
+	DCBT_STOP_ALL_STREAM_IDS(r6)
+#endif
+
 	addi	r6,r4,-THREAD	/* Convert THREAD to 'current' */
 	std	r6,PACACURRENT(r13)	/* Set new 'current' */