diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
index 9afc01e5a0a6..86c4b6294713 100644
--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -98,9 +98,6 @@ int no_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
 extern asmlinkage __printf(1, 2)
 void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...);
 
-extern int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu);
-extern void printk_tick(void);
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
 asmlinkage __printf(5, 0)
 int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index cdc152c75727..c575566be47d 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1196,6 +1196,7 @@ config HOTPLUG
 config PRINTK
 	default y
 	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
+	select IRQ_WORK
 	help
 	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
 	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 2d607f4d1797..c9104feba5ec 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/rculist.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -1955,30 +1956,32 @@ int is_console_locked(void)
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_pending);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char [PRINTK_BUF_SIZE], printk_sched_buf);
 
-void printk_tick(void)
+static void wake_up_klogd_work_func(struct irq_work *irq_work)
 {
-	if (__this_cpu_read(printk_pending)) {
-		int pending = __this_cpu_xchg(printk_pending, 0);
-		if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED) {
-			char *buf = __get_cpu_var(printk_sched_buf);
-			printk(KERN_WARNING "[sched_delayed] %s", buf);
-		}
-		if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP)
-			wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
+	int pending = __this_cpu_xchg(printk_pending, 0);
+
+	if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED) {
+		char *buf = __get_cpu_var(printk_sched_buf);
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "[sched_delayed] %s", buf);
 	}
+
+	if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP)
+		wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
 }
 
-int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu)
-{
-	if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
-		printk_tick();
-	return __this_cpu_read(printk_pending);
-}
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct irq_work, wake_up_klogd_work) = {
+	.func = wake_up_klogd_work_func,
+	.flags = IRQ_WORK_LAZY,
+};
 
 void wake_up_klogd(void)
 {
-	if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait))
+	preempt_disable();
+	if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait)) {
 		this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP);
+		irq_work_queue(&__get_cpu_var(wake_up_klogd_work));
+	}
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 static void console_cont_flush(char *text, size_t size)
@@ -2458,6 +2461,7 @@ int printk_sched(const char *fmt, ...)
 	va_end(args);
 
 	__this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED);
+	irq_work_queue(&__get_cpu_var(wake_up_klogd_work));
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
 	return r;
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index f249e8c3e58e..822d7572bf2d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
 		time_delta = timekeeping_max_deferment();
 	} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
 
-	if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu, &rcu_delta_jiffies) || printk_needs_cpu(cpu) ||
+	if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu, &rcu_delta_jiffies) ||
 	    arch_needs_cpu(cpu) || irq_work_needs_cpu()) {
 		next_jiffies = last_jiffies + 1;
 		delta_jiffies = 1;
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 367d00858482..ff3b5165737b 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1351,7 +1351,6 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
 	account_process_tick(p, user_tick);
 	run_local_timers();
 	rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user_tick);
-	printk_tick();
 #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
 	if (in_irq())
 		irq_work_run();