diff --git a/grub2-use-stat-instead-of-udevadm-for-partition-lookup.patch b/grub2-use-stat-instead-of-udevadm-for-partition-lookup.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b226b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grub2-use-stat-instead-of-udevadm-for-partition-lookup.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
+Subject: grub2: use stat instead of udevadm for partition lookup
+References: bnc#883635
+
+sysfs_partition_path calls udevadm to resolve the sysfs path for
+a block device. That can be accomplished by stating the device node
+and using the major/minor to follow the symlinks in /sys/dev/block/.
+
+This cuts the execution time of grub2-mkconfig from 10s to 2s on
+my system.
+
+Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
+---
+ grub-core/osdep/linux/hostdisk.c |    9 ++++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/grub-core/osdep/linux/hostdisk.c
++++ b/grub-core/osdep/linux/hostdisk.c
+@@ -105,6 +106,13 @@ sysfs_partition_path (const char *dev, c
+   char *buf = NULL;
+   size_t len = 0;
+   char *path = NULL;
++  struct stat st;
++  int ret;
++
++  ret = stat(dev, &st);
++  if (ret == 0 && S_ISBLK(st.st_mode))
++    return xasprintf ("/sys/dev/block/%u:%u/%s",
++		      major (st.st_rdev), minor (st.st_rdev), entry);
+ 
+   argv[0] = "udevadm";
+   argv[1] = "info";
diff --git a/grub2.changes b/grub2.changes
index 6faaac4..a9661ab 100644
--- a/grub2.changes
+++ b/grub2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jun 20 19:50:28 UTC 2014 - jeffm@suse.com
+
+- grub2: use stat instead of udevadm for partition lookup (bnc#883635)
+  * Added grub2-use-stat-instead-of-udevadm-for-partition-lookup.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr 15 08:36:46 UTC 2014 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/grub2.spec b/grub2.spec
index 1792a9b..ea9a18c 100644
--- a/grub2.spec
+++ b/grub2.spec
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ Patch223:       grub2-ppc64le-23-grub-segfaults-if-initrd-is-specified-before-sp
 Patch224:       grub2-ppc64-build-ppc64-32bit.patch
 Patch225:       grub2-ppc64-qemu.patch
 Patch226:       grub2-ppc64le-timeout.patch
+Patch227:       grub2-use-stat-instead-of-udevadm-for-partition-lookup.patch
 
 Requires:       gettext-runtime
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1140
@@ -362,6 +363,7 @@ mv po/grub.pot po/%{name}.pot
 %patch224 -p1
 %patch225 -p1
 %patch226 -p1
+%patch227 -p1
 
 # Generate po/LINGUAS for message catalogs ...
 ./linguas.sh