diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh
index 7e21e9146118c713a8721a769d3984efbfbfb6a4..5bd8b1003d446b1f4e80dd7e9a788685263a3a6e 100755
--- a/scripts/tags.sh
+++ b/scripts/tags.sh
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ exuberant()
 	-I ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp                \
 	-I EXPORT_SYMBOL,EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL                      \
 	--extra=+f --c-kinds=+px                                \
-	--regex-asm='/^ENTRY\(([^)]*)\).*/\1/'
+	--regex-asm='/^ENTRY\(([^)]*)\).*/\1/'                  \
+	--regex-c='/^SYSCALL_DEFINE[[:digit:]]?\(([^,)]*).*/sys_\1/'
 
 	all_kconfigs | xargs $1 -a                              \
 	--langdef=kconfig --language-force=kconfig              \
@@ -120,7 +121,9 @@ exuberant()
 
 emacs()
 {
-	all_sources | xargs $1 -a
+	all_sources | xargs $1 -a                               \
+	--regex='/^ENTRY(\([^)]*\)).*/\1/'                      \
+	--regex='/^SYSCALL_DEFINE[0-9]?(\([^,)]*\).*/sys_\1/'
 
 	all_kconfigs | xargs $1 -a                              \
 	--regex='/^[ \t]*\(\(menu\)*config\)[ \t]+\([a-zA-Z0-9_]+\)/\3/'