diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ddf5be952e45..e7ca93f17851 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -609,7 +609,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS 	+= $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly)
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
-KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -pg
+ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FENTRY
+CC_USING_FENTRY	:= $(call cc-option, -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY)
+endif
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -pg $(CC_USING_FENTRY)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(CC_USING_FENTRY)
 ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
 		BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT := y
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 8c4c07071cc5..9301a0e35e0c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
 	help
 	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
 
+config HAVE_FENTRY
+	bool
+	help
+	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
+
 config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
 	bool
 	help