diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
index 96566df547a8..1f9e9848bbd5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
@@ -39,6 +39,30 @@
 #define _RPAGE_RPN0		0x01000
 #define _RPAGE_RPN1		0x02000
 
+/* Max physical address bit as per radix table */
+#define _RPAGE_PA_MAX		57
+
+/*
+ * Max physical address bit we will use for now.
+ *
+ * This is mostly a hardware limitation and for now Power9 has
+ * a 51 bit limit.
+ *
+ * This is different from the number of physical bit required to address
+ * the last byte of memory. That is defined by MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
+ * MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS is a linux limitation imposed by the maximum
+ * number of sections we can support (SECTIONS_SHIFT).
+ *
+ * This is different from Radix page table limitation above and
+ * should always be less than that. The limit is done such that
+ * we can overload the bits between _RPAGE_PA_MAX and _PAGE_PA_MAX
+ * for hash linux page table specific bits.
+ *
+ * In order to be compatible with future hardware generations we keep
+ * some offsets and limit this for now to 53
+ */
+#define _PAGE_PA_MAX		53
+
 #define _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY	_RPAGE_SW3 /* software: software dirty tracking */
 #define _PAGE_SPECIAL		_RPAGE_SW2 /* software: special page */
 
@@ -51,10 +75,11 @@
  */
 #define _PAGE_NO_CACHE		_PAGE_TOLERANT
 /*
- * We support 57 bit real address in pte. Clear everything above 57, and
- * every thing below PAGE_SHIFT;
+ * We support _RPAGE_PA_MAX bit real address in pte. On the linux side
+ * we are limited by _PAGE_PA_MAX. Clear everything above _PAGE_PA_MAX
+ * and every thing below PAGE_SHIFT;
  */
-#define PTE_RPN_MASK	(((1UL << 57) - 1) & (PAGE_MASK))
+#define PTE_RPN_MASK	(((1UL << _PAGE_PA_MAX) - 1) & (PAGE_MASK))
 /*
  * set of bits not changed in pmd_modify. Even though we have hash specific bits
  * in here, on radix we expect them to be zero.