diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
index 316194f26ff4ab3131c6b29f939ef2209626f208..b3dbe9ef1a40ac0580905ed2812d22026850f449 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ CFLAGS := -Wall -O2 -flto -Wall -Werror -DGIT_VERSION='"$(GIT_VERSION)"' -I$(CUR
 
 export CC CFLAGS
 
-TARGETS = pmu copyloops
+TARGETS = pmu copyloops mm
 
 endif
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..357ccbd6bad9f0e038a605b1f945b9cbba717bae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+noarg:
+	$(MAKE) -C ../
+
+PROGS := hugetlb_vs_thp_test
+
+all: $(PROGS)
+
+$(PROGS): ../harness.c
+
+run_tests: all
+	@-for PROG in $(PROGS); do \
+		./$$PROG; \
+	done;
+
+clean:
+	rm -f $(PROGS)
+
+.PHONY: all run_tests clean
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/hugetlb_vs_thp_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/hugetlb_vs_thp_test.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d8e5b033e1d1e06b68a0d81fd4ef938d9260c93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/hugetlb_vs_thp_test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "utils.h"
+
+/* This must match the huge page & THP size */
+#define SIZE	(16 * 1024 * 1024)
+
+static int test_body(void)
+{
+	void *addr;
+	char *p;
+
+	addr = (void *)0xa0000000;
+
+	p = mmap(addr, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+		 MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
+	if (p != MAP_FAILED) {
+		/*
+		 * Typically the mmap will fail because no huge pages are
+		 * allocated on the system. But if there are huge pages
+		 * allocated the mmap will succeed. That's fine too, we just
+		 * munmap here before continuing.
+		 */
+		munmap(addr, SIZE);
+	}
+
+	p = mmap(addr, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+		 MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
+	if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
+		printf("Mapping failed @ %p\n", addr);
+		perror("mmap");
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Either a user or kernel access is sufficient to trigger the bug.
+	 * A kernel access is easier to spot & debug, as it will trigger the
+	 * softlockup or RCU stall detectors, and when the system is kicked
+	 * into xmon we get a backtrace in the kernel.
+	 *
+	 * A good option is:
+	 *  getcwd(p, SIZE);
+	 *
+	 * For the purposes of this testcase it's preferable to spin in
+	 * userspace, so the harness can kill us if we get stuck. That way we
+	 * see a test failure rather than a dead system.
+	 */
+	*p = 0xf;
+
+	munmap(addr, SIZE);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int test_main(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	/* 10,000 because it's a "bunch", and completes reasonably quickly */
+	for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
+		if (test_body())
+			return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return test_harness(test_main, "hugetlb_vs_thp");
+}