diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
index d084ce195fc3..8b9a306260b2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ extern void ppc_printk_progress(char *s, unsigned short hex);
 extern unsigned int rtas_data;
 extern int mem_init_done;	/* set on boot once kmalloc can be called */
 extern int init_bootmem_done;	/* set once bootmem is available */
-extern phys_addr_t memory_limit;
+extern unsigned long long memory_limit;
 extern unsigned long klimit;
 extern void *zalloc_maybe_bootmem(size_t size, gfp_t mask);
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index 18bdf74fa164..06c8202a69cf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ int __init fadump_reserve_mem(void)
 		else
 			memory_limit = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
 		printk(KERN_INFO "Adjusted memory_limit for firmware-assisted"
-				" dump, now %#016llx\n",
-				(unsigned long long)memory_limit);
+				" dump, now %#016llx\n", memory_limit);
 	}
 	if (memory_limit)
 		memory_boundary = memory_limit;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 5df777794403..4074eff1e744 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 	if (memory_limit && memory_limit <= crashk_res.end) {
 		memory_limit = crashk_res.end + 1;
 		printk("Adjusted memory limit for crashkernel, now 0x%llx\n",
-		       (unsigned long long)memory_limit);
+		       memory_limit);
 	}
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Reserving %ldMB of memory at %ldMB "
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index f191bf02943a..37725e86651e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int __init early_parse_mem(char *p)
 		return 1;
 
 	memory_limit = PAGE_ALIGN(memparse(p, &p));
-	DBG("memory limit = 0x%llx\n", (unsigned long long)memory_limit);
+	DBG("memory limit = 0x%llx\n", memory_limit);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *params)
 
 	/* make sure we've parsed cmdline for mem= before this */
 	if (memory_limit)
-		first_memblock_size = min(first_memblock_size, memory_limit);
+		first_memblock_size = min_t(u64, first_memblock_size, memory_limit);
 	setup_initial_memory_limit(memstart_addr, first_memblock_size);
 	/* Reserve MEMBLOCK regions used by kernel, initrd, dt, etc... */
 	memblock_reserve(PHYSICAL_START, __pa(klimit) - PHYSICAL_START);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index fbdad0e3929a..44cf2b20503d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 
 int init_bootmem_done;
 int mem_init_done;
-phys_addr_t memory_limit;
+unsigned long long memory_limit;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 pte_t *kmap_pte;