diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 18c3521b7a923aca7246e18d0d43935263f71fa3..fbaeeb80a69e9a09c1aec4c2ad533697a3c1594a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -467,6 +467,8 @@ LZ4		= lz4c
 XZ		= xz
 ZSTD		= zstd
 
+PAHOLE_FLAGS	= $(shell PAHOLE=$(PAHOLE) $(srctree)/scripts/pahole-flags.sh)
+
 CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ \
 		  -Wbitwise -Wno-return-void -Wno-unknown-attribute $(CF)
 NOSTDINC_FLAGS :=
@@ -520,6 +522,7 @@ export KBUILD_CFLAGS CFLAGS_KERNEL CFLAGS_MODULE
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS AFLAGS_KERNEL AFLAGS_MODULE
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL
+export PAHOLE_FLAGS
 
 # Files to ignore in find ... statements
 
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index d0b44bee9286ed1f5eabced65831dd9f3feb576a..acd07a70a2f4e1b2e897b34f36f3bdab2be6e06e 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ gen_btf()
 	vmlinux_link ${1}
 
 	info "BTF" ${2}
-	LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1}
+	LLVM_OBJCOPY="${OBJCOPY}" ${PAHOLE} -J ${PAHOLE_FLAGS} ${1}
 
 	# Create ${2} which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add
 	# SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all
diff --git a/scripts/pahole-flags.sh b/scripts/pahole-flags.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c82173e42e523dc9b98c1ada893b2d672b4c172
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/pahole-flags.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+extra_paholeopt=
+
+if ! [ -x "$(command -v ${PAHOLE})" ]; then
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+pahole_ver=$(${PAHOLE} --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/')
+
+if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "118" ] && [ "${pahole_ver}" -le "121" ]; then
+	# pahole 1.18 through 1.21 can't handle zero-sized per-CPU vars
+	extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --skip_encoding_btf_vars"
+fi
+
+if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "124" ]; then
+	extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --skip_encoding_btf_enum64"
+fi
+
+echo ${extra_paholeopt}