diff --git a/arch/openrisc/Kconfig b/arch/openrisc/Kconfig
index a4787197d8fe3ea39b28c646ecfed383263ea0f1..6d921936f4abecd294bce73975daa04e25186fc7 100644
--- a/arch/openrisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/openrisc/Kconfig
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ config OPENRISC
 	select GENERIC_IOMAP
 	select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
 	select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
+	select HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK
 
 config MMU
 	def_bool y
diff --git a/arch/openrisc/Makefile b/arch/openrisc/Makefile
index 158ae4c0dc6cc7dccc6883c0a6bf7eae66fe6306..966886c8daf5989a21040920bbb957d912144ab2 100644
--- a/arch/openrisc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/openrisc/Makefile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ else
 	KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-msoft-div)
 endif
 
-head-y 		:= arch/openrisc/kernel/head.o arch/openrisc/kernel/init_task.o
+head-y 		:= arch/openrisc/kernel/head.o
 
 core-y		+= arch/openrisc/lib/ \
 		   arch/openrisc/kernel/ \
diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/openrisc/kernel/Makefile
index 9a4c2706d795acf7a30fe9840d498179484b06a2..e1ee0fa2bbda700c9ecfbd9170dc5efba2a22f3a 100644
--- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Makefile for the linux kernel.
 #
 
-extra-y	:= head.o vmlinux.lds init_task.o
+extra-y	:= head.o vmlinux.lds
 
 obj-y	:= setup.o idle.o or32_ksyms.o process.o dma.o \
 	   traps.o time.o irq.o entry.o ptrace.o signal.o sys_or32.o \
diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/init_task.c b/arch/openrisc/kernel/init_task.c
deleted file mode 100644
index ca534082d5f317566e5958c3337321852e1c72ca..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/init_task.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * OpenRISC init_task.c
- *
- * Linux architectural port borrowing liberally from similar works of
- * others.  All original copyrights apply as per the original source
- * declaration.
- *
- * Modifications for the OpenRISC architecture:
- * Copyright (C) 2003 Matjaz Breskvar <phoenix@bsemi.com>
- * Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
- *
- *      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- *      modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- *      as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
- *      2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- */
-
-#include <linux/init_task.h>
-#include <linux/mqueue.h>
-#include <linux/export.h>
-
-static struct signal_struct init_signals = INIT_SIGNALS(init_signals);
-static struct sighand_struct init_sighand = INIT_SIGHAND(init_sighand);
-
-/*
- * Initial thread structure.
- *
- * We need to make sure that this is THREAD_SIZE aligned due to the
- * way process stacks are handled. This is done by having a special
- * "init_task" linker map entry..
- */
-union thread_union init_thread_union __init_task_data = {
-	INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task)
-};
-
-/*
- * Initial task structure.
- *
- * All other task structs will be allocated on slabs in fork.c
- */
-struct task_struct init_task = INIT_TASK(init_task);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_task);