diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
index 3279646120e3be5bdbc970ca5297b5fce30011ee..5fb10644d9ed85cfe28a7f05396f9feef0df398a 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ config IA64
 	select ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
 	select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
 	select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
+	select SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
 	select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
 	default y
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 7d30240e5bfef76aedc3a8eee2a7991abe0f0a18..523bee15fb442377646420545a105bcc5ad11245 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1232,6 +1232,13 @@ config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
 	help
 	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
 
+config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
+	bool
+	help
+	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
+	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
+	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
+
 config KALLSYMS
 	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
 	 default y
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index c88878db491e44bd2b5a5ea7f381fc7242187727..840fd5eb2309344e16248c8449af2b69b7edeb59 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -161,10 +161,13 @@ extern int unaligned_enabled;
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IA64
-extern int no_unaligned_warning;
 extern int unaligned_dump_stack;
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
+extern int no_unaligned_warning;
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
 static int proc_do_cad_pid(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		  void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@@ -911,7 +914,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= proc_doulongvec_minmax,
 	},
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_IA64
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
 	{
 		.procname	= "ignore-unaligned-usertrap",
 		.data		= &no_unaligned_warning,
@@ -919,6 +922,8 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 	 	.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 	},
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_IA64
 	{
 		.procname	= "unaligned-dump-stack",
 		.data		= &unaligned_dump_stack,