diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S b/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
index e50b93155249..607c06007508 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ ENTRY(spurious_interrupt_bug)
 	pushl $do_spurious_interrupt_bug
 	jmp error_code
 
+.section .rodata,"a"
 #include "syscall_table.S"
 
 syscall_table_size=(.-sys_call_table)
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
index 9b21a31d4f4e..f7ba4acc20ec 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-.data
 ENTRY(sys_call_table)
 	.long sys_restart_syscall	/* 0 - old "setup()" system call, used for restarting */
 	.long sys_exit
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S
index e0eb0c712fe9..df0773c9bdbe 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ ENTRY(ia32_ptregs_common)
 	jmp  ia32_sysret	/* misbalances the return cache */
 	CFI_ENDPROC
 
-	.data
+	.section .rodata,"a"
 	.align 8
 	.globl ia32_sys_call_table
 ia32_sys_call_table:
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/syscall.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/syscall.c
index e263685f864c..7c176b3edde0 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/syscall.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/syscall.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ typedef void (*sys_call_ptr_t)(void);
 
 extern void sys_ni_syscall(void);
 
-sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[__NR_syscall_max+1] __cacheline_aligned = { 
+const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[__NR_syscall_max+1] = {
 	/* Smells like a like a compiler bug -- it doesn't work when the & below is removed. */ 
 	[0 ... __NR_syscall_max] = &sys_ni_syscall,
 #include <asm-x86_64/unistd.h>