diff --git a/arch/m32r/kernel/process.c b/arch/m32r/kernel/process.c
index 2a1f250349b7..5dfc7ea45cf7 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/m32r/kernel/process.c
@@ -242,13 +242,10 @@ int dump_fpu(struct pt_regs *regs, elf_fpregset_t *fpu)
 int copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long spu,
 	unsigned long unused, struct task_struct *tsk, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	struct pt_regs *childregs;
-	unsigned long sp = (unsigned long)tsk->thread_info + THREAD_SIZE;
+	struct pt_regs *childregs = task_pt_regs(tsk);
 	extern void ret_from_fork(void);
 
 	/* Copy registers */
-	sp -= sizeof (struct pt_regs);
-	childregs = (struct pt_regs *)sp;
 	*childregs = *regs;
 
 	childregs->spu = spu;
diff --git a/arch/m32r/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/m32r/kernel/ptrace.c
index 9b75caaf5cec..340a3bf59b88 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/m32r/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -34,23 +34,6 @@
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 
-/*
- * Get the address of the live pt_regs for the specified task.
- * These are saved onto the top kernel stack when the process
- * is not running.
- *
- * Note: if a user thread is execve'd from kernel space, the
- * kernel stack will not be empty on entry to the kernel, so
- * ptracing these tasks will fail.
- */
-static inline struct pt_regs *
-get_user_regs(struct task_struct *task)
-{
-        return (struct pt_regs *)
-                ((unsigned long)task->thread_info + THREAD_SIZE
-                 - sizeof(struct pt_regs));
-}
-
 /*
  * This routine will get a word off of the process kernel stack.
  */
@@ -59,7 +42,7 @@ get_stack_long(struct task_struct *task, int offset)
 {
 	unsigned long *stack;
 
-	stack = (unsigned long *)get_user_regs(task);
+	stack = (unsigned long *)task_pt_regs(task);
 
 	return stack[offset];
 }
@@ -72,7 +55,7 @@ put_stack_long(struct task_struct *task, int offset, unsigned long data)
 {
 	unsigned long *stack;
 
-	stack = (unsigned long *)get_user_regs(task);
+	stack = (unsigned long *)task_pt_regs(task);
 	stack[offset] = data;
 
 	return 0;
@@ -208,7 +191,7 @@ static int ptrace_write_user(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long off,
  */
 static int ptrace_getregs(struct task_struct *tsk, void __user *uregs)
 {
-	struct pt_regs *regs = get_user_regs(tsk);
+	struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(tsk);
 
 	return copy_to_user(uregs, regs, sizeof(struct pt_regs)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
 }
@@ -223,7 +206,7 @@ static int ptrace_setregs(struct task_struct *tsk, void __user *uregs)
 
 	ret = -EFAULT;
 	if (copy_from_user(&newregs, uregs, sizeof(struct pt_regs)) == 0) {
-		struct pt_regs *regs = get_user_regs(tsk);
+		struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(tsk);
 		*regs = newregs;
 		ret = 0;
 	}
diff --git a/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
index b90c54169fa5..d7ec16e7fb25 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static void __init do_boot_cpu(int phys_id)
 	/* So we see what's up   */
 	printk("Booting processor %d/%d\n", phys_id, cpu_id);
 	stack_start.spi = (void *)idle->thread.sp;
-	idle->thread_info->cpu = cpu_id;
+	task_thread_info(idle)->cpu = cpu_id;
 
 	/*
 	 * Send Startup IPI
diff --git a/include/asm-m32r/ptrace.h b/include/asm-m32r/ptrace.h
index 55cd7ecfde43..0d058b2d844e 100644
--- a/include/asm-m32r/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/asm-m32r/ptrace.h
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ extern void show_regs(struct pt_regs *);
 
 extern void withdraw_debug_trap(struct pt_regs *regs);
 
+#define task_pt_regs(task) \
+        ((struct pt_regs *)(task_stack_page(task) + THREAD_SIZE) - 1)
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_M32R_PTRACE_H */