diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 078d38c054906b..3074c1d83829de 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <asm/diag.h>
 #include <asm/elf.h>
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/os_info.h>
 #include <asm/switch_to.h>
 
@@ -60,8 +61,6 @@ static int machine_kdump_pm_cb(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
 static int __init machine_kdump_pm_init(void)
 {
 	pm_notifier(machine_kdump_pm_cb, 0);
-	/* Create initial mapping for crashkernel memory */
-	arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres();
 	return 0;
 }
 arch_initcall(machine_kdump_pm_init);
@@ -163,37 +162,27 @@ void crash_free_reserved_phys_range(unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
 		os_info_crashkernel_add(0, 0);
 }
 
-/*
- * Map or unmap crashkernel memory
- */
-static void crash_map_pages(int enable)
+static void crash_protect_pages(int protect)
 {
-	unsigned long size = resource_size(&crashk_res);
+	unsigned long size;
 
-	BUG_ON(crashk_res.start % KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN ||
-	       size % KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN);
-	if (enable)
-		vmem_add_mapping(crashk_res.start, size);
+	if (!crashk_res.end)
+		return;
+	size = resource_size(&crashk_res);
+	if (protect)
+		set_memory_ro(crashk_res.start, size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	else
-		vmem_remove_mapping(crashk_res.start, size);
+		set_memory_rw(crashk_res.start, size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 }
 
-/*
- * Unmap crashkernel memory
- */
 void arch_kexec_protect_crashkres(void)
 {
-	if (crashk_res.end)
-		crash_map_pages(0);
+	crash_protect_pages(1);
 }
 
-/*
- * Map crashkernel memory
- */
 void arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres(void)
 {
-	if (crashk_res.end)
-		crash_map_pages(1);
+	crash_protect_pages(0);
 }
 
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c b/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
index d4e0742b197b8b..9b4bb9d9275fd0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
@@ -432,6 +432,20 @@ static void __init setup_resources(void)
 			}
 		}
 	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+	/*
+	 * Re-add removed crash kernel memory as reserved memory. This makes
+	 * sure it will be mapped with the identity mapping and struct pages
+	 * will be created, so it can be resized later on.
+	 * However add it later since the crash kernel resource should not be
+	 * part of the System RAM resource.
+	 */
+	if (crashk_res.end) {
+		memblock_add(crashk_res.start, resource_size(&crashk_res));
+		memblock_reserve(crashk_res.start, resource_size(&crashk_res));
+		insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_res);
+	}
+#endif
 }
 
 static void __init setup_memory_end(void)
@@ -602,7 +616,6 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 		diag10_range(PFN_DOWN(crash_base), PFN_DOWN(crash_size));
 	crashk_res.start = crash_base;
 	crashk_res.end = crash_base + crash_size - 1;
-	insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_res);
 	memblock_remove(crash_base, crash_size);
 	pr_info("Reserving %lluMB of memory at %lluMB "
 		"for crashkernel (System RAM: %luMB)\n",