diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h
index c6dcc5291f97..02fbc175142e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h
@@ -63,4 +63,11 @@ do {									\
  * Let auipc+jalr be the basic *mcount unit*, so we make it 8 bytes here.
  */
 #define MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE 8
+
+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+struct dyn_ftrace;
+int ftrace_init_nop(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec);
+#define ftrace_init_nop ftrace_init_nop
+#endif
+
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
index c40fdcdeb950..291c579e1245 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -88,6 +88,25 @@ int ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec,
 	return __ftrace_modify_call(rec->ip, addr, false);
 }
 
+
+/*
+ * This is called early on, and isn't wrapped by
+ * ftrace_arch_code_modify_{prepare,post_process}() and therefor doesn't hold
+ * text_mutex, which triggers a lockdep failure.  SMP isn't running so we could
+ * just directly poke the text, but it's simpler to just take the lock
+ * ourselves.
+ */
+int ftrace_init_nop(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
+{
+	int out;
+
+	ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare();
+	out = ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, MCOUNT_ADDR);
+	ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process();
+
+	return out;
+}
+
 int ftrace_update_ftrace_func(ftrace_func_t func)
 {
 	int ret = __ftrace_modify_call((unsigned long)&ftrace_call,