diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/setup.h
index d7bfdeba9e845acfa83270f01bb280a687d785ad..4f5279a8308d7cd1138f873586b0e38eba488ee7 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ extern void *set_vi_handler(int n, vi_handler_t addr);
 
 extern void *set_except_vector(int n, void *addr);
 extern unsigned long ebase;
+extern unsigned int hwrena;
 extern void per_cpu_trap_init(bool);
 extern void cpu_cache_init(void);
 
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
index 7176a6057e26d63bdb41cd8762082588ffb5cd60..6fb4704bd156adeabf8cead8509a6058745a9960 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -2064,10 +2064,13 @@ static void configure_status(void)
 			 status_set);
 }
 
+unsigned int hwrena;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrena);
+
 /* configure HWRENA register */
 static void configure_hwrena(void)
 {
-	unsigned int hwrena = cpu_hwrena_impl_bits;
+	hwrena = cpu_hwrena_impl_bits;
 
 	if (cpu_has_mips_r2_r6)
 		hwrena |= MIPS_HWRENA_CPUNUM |
diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/locore.S b/arch/mips/kvm/locore.S
index f87bec546366f2e211d792f03367457b522d1540..698286c0f7323f80c1cec409c66beb0097fca3e2 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kvm/locore.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kvm/locore.S
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ NESTED (MIPSX(GuestException), CALLFRAME_SIZ, ra)
 	mtc0	k0, CP0_DDATA_LO
 
 	/* Restore RDHWR access */
-	PTR_LI	k0, 0x2000000F
+	INT_L	k0, hwrena
 	mtc0	k0, CP0_HWRENA
 
 	/* Jump to handler */
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ __kvm_mips_return_to_host:
 	mtlo	k0
 
 	/* Restore RDHWR access */
-	PTR_LI	k0, 0x2000000F
+	INT_L	k0, hwrena
 	mtc0	k0, CP0_HWRENA
 
 	/* Restore RA, which is the address we will return to */