diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index 090d300d7394..bfb8b2cdd92a 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ my %text_sections = (
      ".sched.text" => 1,
      ".spinlock.text" => 1,
      ".irqentry.text" => 1,
+     ".text.unlikely" => 1,
 );
 
 $objdump = "objdump" if ((length $objdump) == 0);