diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/unistd.h
index 2c9b7a8..6a70aa4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/unistd.h
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@
 #define __ARCH_WANT_OLD_READDIR
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_SOCKETCALL
 #endif
+#define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE
 #define __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S b/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S
index 463ff4a..b287b35 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 		CALL(sys_creat)
 		CALL(sys_link)
 /* 10 */	CALL(sys_unlink)
-		CALL(sys_execve_wrapper)
+		CALL(sys_execve)
 		CALL(sys_chdir)
 		CALL(OBSOLETE(sys_time))	/* used by libc4 */
 		CALL(sys_mknod)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
index 4a6e46a..ed79412 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
@@ -532,11 +532,6 @@
 		b	sys_vfork
 ENDPROC(sys_vfork_wrapper)
 
-sys_execve_wrapper:
-		add	r3, sp, #S_OFF
-		b	sys_execve
-ENDPROC(sys_execve_wrapper)
-
 sys_clone_wrapper:
 		add	ip, sp, #S_OFF
 		str	ip, [sp, #4]
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c b/arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c
index c8e729ef..c2a898a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c
@@ -59,26 +59,6 @@
 	return do_fork(CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM | SIGCHLD, regs->ARM_sp, regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
 }
 
-/* sys_execve() executes a new program.
- * This is called indirectly via a small wrapper
- */
-asmlinkage int sys_execve(const char __user *filenamei,
-			  const char __user *const __user *argv,
-			  const char __user *const __user *envp, struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
-	int error;
-	char * filename;
-
-	filename = getname(filenamei);
-	error = PTR_ERR(filename);
-	if (IS_ERR(filename))
-		goto out;
-	error = do_execve(filename, argv, envp, regs);
-	putname(filename);
-out:
-	return error;
-}
-
 /*
  * Since loff_t is a 64 bit type we avoid a lot of ABI hassle
  * with a different argument ordering.