diff --git a/drivers/opp/of.c b/drivers/opp/of.c
index 62504b18f198..c10c782d15aa 100644
--- a/drivers/opp/of.c
+++ b/drivers/opp/of.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static void _opp_table_alloc_required_tables(struct opp_table *opp_table,
 	struct opp_table **required_opp_tables;
 	struct device **genpd_virt_devs = NULL;
 	struct device_node *required_np, *np;
-	int count, i;
+	int count, count_pd, i;
 
 	/* Traversing the first OPP node is all we need */
 	np = of_get_next_available_child(opp_np, NULL);
@@ -186,7 +186,19 @@ static void _opp_table_alloc_required_tables(struct opp_table *opp_table,
 	if (!count)
 		goto put_np;
 
-	if (count > 1) {
+	/*
+	 * Check the number of power-domains to know if we need to deal
+	 * with virtual devices. In some cases we have devices with multiple
+	 * power domains but with only one of them being scalable, hence
+	 * 'count' could be 1, but we still have to deal with multiple genpds
+	 * and virtual devices.
+	 */
+	count_pd = of_count_phandle_with_args(dev->of_node, "power-domains",
+					      "#power-domain-cells");
+	if (!count_pd)
+		goto put_np;
+
+	if (count_pd > 1) {
 		genpd_virt_devs = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*genpd_virt_devs),
 					GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!genpd_virt_devs)