diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 3d65084f4066..cfb21856559b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ config PPC
 	select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR		if PPC64 && $(cc-option,-mstack-protector-guard=tls -mstack-protector-guard-reg=r13)
 	select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR		if PPC32 && $(cc-option,-mstack-protector-guard=tls -mstack-protector-guard-reg=r2)
 	select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING		if PPC64
+	select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 8fc4de0d22b4..24621e7e5033 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -1600,8 +1600,9 @@ static void setup_ksp_vsid(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long sp)
 /*
  * Copy architecture-specific thread state
  */
-int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
-		unsigned long kthread_arg, struct task_struct *p)
+int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
+		unsigned long kthread_arg, struct task_struct *p,
+		unsigned long tls)
 {
 	struct pt_regs *childregs, *kregs;
 	extern void ret_from_fork(void);
@@ -1642,10 +1643,10 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
 		if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 			if (!is_32bit_task())
-				childregs->gpr[13] = childregs->gpr[6];
+				childregs->gpr[13] = tls;
 			else
 #endif
-				childregs->gpr[2] = childregs->gpr[6];
+				childregs->gpr[2] = tls;
 		}
 
 		f = ret_from_fork;