diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index cfc170935a58..ce8569e16f0c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ void update_numa_distance(struct device_node *node)
 	WARN(numa_distance_table[nid][nid] == -1,
 	     "NUMA distance details for node %d not provided\n", nid);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(update_numa_distance);
 
 /*
  * ibm,numa-lookup-index-table= {N, domainid1, domainid2, ..... domainidN}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
index 057acbb9116d..e3b7698b4762 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
@@ -1079,6 +1079,13 @@ static int papr_scm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * open firmware platform device create won't update the NUMA 
+	 * distance table. For PAPR SCM devices we use numa_map_to_online_node()
+	 * to find the nearest online NUMA node and that requires correct
+	 * distance table information.
+	 */
+	update_numa_distance(dn);
 
 	p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!p)