diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
index 239f14b..99df110 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
@@ -218,11 +218,10 @@
 
 You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch.
 
+- Support HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK (see arch/Kconfig).
 - Have a NR_syscalls variable in <asm/unistd.h> that provides the number
   of syscalls supported by the arch.
-- Implement arch_syscall_addr() that resolves a syscall address from a
-  syscall number.
-- Support the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT thread flags
+- Support the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT thread flags.
 - Put the trace_sys_enter() and trace_sys_exit() tracepoints calls from ptrace
   in the ptrace syscalls tracing path.
 - Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/syscall.h
index e0a73d3..8429686 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/syscall.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/syscall.h
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 
+/*
+ * The syscall table always contains 32 bit pointers since we know that the
+ * address of the function to be called is (way) below 4GB.  So the "int"
+ * type here is what we want [need] for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems.
+ */
+extern const unsigned int sys_call_table[];
+
 static inline long syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task,
 				  struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/s390/kernel/ftrace.c
index 5a82bc6..9e69449 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -200,13 +200,3 @@
 	return parent;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
-
-extern unsigned int sys_call_table[];
-
-unsigned long __init arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
-{
-	return (unsigned long)sys_call_table[nr];
-}
-#endif
diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/syscall.h
index 6a38142..aa7777b 100644
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/syscall.h
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/syscall.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_SH_SYSCALL_H
 #define __ASM_SH_SYSCALL_H
 
+extern const unsigned long sys_call_table[];
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SUPERH32
 # include "syscall_32.h"
 #else
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c
index a48cded..30e1319 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -399,12 +399,3 @@
 	}
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
-extern unsigned long *sys_call_table;
-
-unsigned long __init arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
-{
-	return (unsigned long)sys_call_table[nr];
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS */
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/syscall.h
index 7486c60..025a02a 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/syscall.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/syscall.h
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 
+/*
+ * The syscall table always contains 32 bit pointers since we know that the
+ * address of the function to be called is (way) below 4GB.  So the "int"
+ * type here is what we want [need] for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems.
+ */
+extern const unsigned int sys_call_table[];
+
 /* The system call number is given by the user in %g1 */
 static inline long syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task,
 				  struct pt_regs *regs)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/ftrace.c
index 29973da..9103a56 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -91,14 +91,3 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 #endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
-
-extern unsigned int sys_call_table[];
-
-unsigned long __init arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
-{
-	return (unsigned long)sys_call_table[nr];
-}
-
-#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
index 8d33bc5..c4a348f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 
+extern const unsigned long sys_call_table[];
+
 /*
  * Only the low 32 bits of orig_ax are meaningful, so we return int.
  * This importantly ignores the high bits on 64-bit, so comparisons
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 3096892..0d93a94 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -484,13 +484,3 @@
 	}
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
-
-extern unsigned long *sys_call_table;
-
-unsigned long __init arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
-{
-	return (unsigned long)(&sys_call_table)[nr];
-}
-#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index 0b4f97d..1cbb36f 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -511,4 +511,10 @@
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_HW_BRANCH_TRACER */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
+
+unsigned long arch_syscall_addr(int nr);
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS */
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_FTRACE_H */
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index 49cea70..ecf0078 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -394,6 +394,11 @@
 	return id;
 }
 
+unsigned long __init arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
+{
+	return (unsigned long)sys_call_table[nr];
+}
+
 int __init init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
 {
 	struct syscall_metadata *meta;