diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/plpks.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/plpks.h
index 23b77027c916..7a84069759b0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/plpks.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/plpks.h
@@ -44,9 +44,8 @@
 #define PLPKS_MAX_DATA_SIZE		4000
 
 // Timeouts for PLPKS operations
-#define PLPKS_MAX_TIMEOUT		5000 // msec
-#define PLPKS_FLUSH_SLEEP		10 // msec
-#define PLPKS_FLUSH_SLEEP_RANGE		400
+#define PLPKS_MAX_TIMEOUT		(5 * USEC_PER_SEC)
+#define PLPKS_FLUSH_SLEEP		10000 // usec
 
 struct plpks_var {
 	char *component;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
index 2d40304eb6c1..ed492d38f6ad 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
@@ -415,8 +415,7 @@ static int plpks_confirm_object_flushed(struct label *label,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		usleep_range(PLPKS_FLUSH_SLEEP,
-			     PLPKS_FLUSH_SLEEP + PLPKS_FLUSH_SLEEP_RANGE);
+		fsleep(PLPKS_FLUSH_SLEEP);
 		timeout = timeout + PLPKS_FLUSH_SLEEP;
 	} while (timeout < PLPKS_MAX_TIMEOUT);
 
@@ -464,9 +463,10 @@ int plpks_signed_update_var(struct plpks_var *var, u64 flags)
 
 		continuetoken = retbuf[0];
 		if (pseries_status_to_err(rc) == -EBUSY) {
-			int delay_ms = get_longbusy_msecs(rc);
-			mdelay(delay_ms);
-			timeout += delay_ms;
+			int delay_us = get_longbusy_msecs(rc) * 1000;
+
+			fsleep(delay_us);
+			timeout += delay_us;
 		}
 		rc = pseries_status_to_err(rc);
 	} while (rc == -EBUSY && timeout < PLPKS_MAX_TIMEOUT);