diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index afdad76..58dc93e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -469,6 +469,21 @@ void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void)
 			    PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
 }
 
+static bool crash_mem_map __initdata;
+
+static int __init enable_crash_mem_map(char *arg)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Proper parameter parsing is done by reserve_crashkernel(). We only
+	 * need to know if the linear map has to avoid block mappings so that
+	 * the crashkernel reservations can be unmapped later.
+	 */
+	crash_mem_map = true;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("crashkernel", enable_crash_mem_map);
+
 static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
 {
 	phys_addr_t kernel_start = __pa_symbol(_text);
@@ -477,7 +492,7 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
 	int flags = 0;
 	u64 i;
 
-	if (rodata_full || debug_pagealloc_enabled())
+	if (rodata_full || crash_mem_map || debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 		flags = NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
 
 	/*
@@ -487,11 +502,6 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
 	 * the following for-loop
 	 */
 	memblock_mark_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
-	if (crashk_res.end)
-		memblock_mark_nomap(crashk_res.start,
-				    resource_size(&crashk_res));
-#endif
 
 	/* map all the memory banks */
 	for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
@@ -519,21 +529,6 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
 	__map_memblock(pgdp, kernel_start, kernel_end,
 		       PAGE_KERNEL, NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
 	memblock_clear_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
-	/*
-	 * Use page-level mappings here so that we can shrink the region
-	 * in page granularity and put back unused memory to buddy system
-	 * through /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size interface.
-	 */
-	if (crashk_res.end) {
-		__map_memblock(pgdp, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end + 1,
-			       PAGE_KERNEL,
-			       NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
-		memblock_clear_nomap(crashk_res.start,
-				     resource_size(&crashk_res));
-	}
-#endif
 }
 
 void mark_rodata_ro(void)