diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 10a0a5488a4..2ba14e77296 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -414,6 +414,10 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
 config ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
 	def_bool y
 
+config SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS
+       def_bool y
+       depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
+
 source "mm/Kconfig"
 
 config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 2126078a38e..64d44efad7a 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
 
 config HUGETLBFS
 	bool "HugeTLB file system support"
-	depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SPARC64 || (S390 && 64BIT) || \
+	depends on X86 || IA64 || SPARC64 || (S390 && 64BIT) || \
 		   SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS || BROKEN
 	help
 	  hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on