diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 046bf4bd2510dfbaaea50c0fd3c7641ae4340cbf..224695938400f042ae379d07f7c9a3e56ca70153 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ config X86
 	select GENERIC_IOMAP
 	select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
+	select HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK
 
 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
 	def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 41a7237606a3b3a26393b0c7844166d728a9ed0a..3e48b26f67d50a2e36e5def9c154a804640f2429 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ archheaders:
 head-y := arch/x86/kernel/head_$(BITS).o
 head-y += arch/x86/kernel/head$(BITS).o
 head-y += arch/x86/kernel/head.o
-head-y += arch/x86/kernel/init_task.o
 
 libs-y  += arch/x86/lib/
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
index 532d2e090e6f3cd438867334ecfe55b22ad1198f..56ebd1f98447798a484fafecceadadcfe14ff639 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Makefile for the linux kernel.
 #
 
-extra-y                := head_$(BITS).o head$(BITS).o head.o init_task.o vmlinux.lds
+extra-y                := head_$(BITS).o head$(BITS).o head.o vmlinux.lds
 
 CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds += -U$(UTS_MACHINE)
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c b/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 43e9ccf449471286fd0013ae1bc28ce83778b9a6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-#include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/sched.h>
-#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/init_task.h>
-#include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/mqueue.h>
-
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
-#include <asm/pgtable.h>
-#include <asm/desc.h>
-
-static struct signal_struct init_signals = INIT_SIGNALS(init_signals);
-static struct sighand_struct init_sighand = INIT_SIGHAND(init_sighand);
-
-/*
- * Initial thread structure.
- *
- * We need to make sure that this is THREAD_SIZE aligned due to the
- * way process stacks are handled. This is done by having a special
- * "init_task" linker map entry..
- */
-union thread_union init_thread_union __init_task_data =
-	{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };
-
-/*
- * Initial task structure.
- *
- * All other task structs will be allocated on slabs in fork.c
- */
-struct task_struct init_task = INIT_TASK(init_task);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_task);
-
-/*
- * per-CPU TSS segments. Threads are completely 'soft' on Linux,
- * no more per-task TSS's. The TSS size is kept cacheline-aligned
- * so they are allowed to end up in the .data..cacheline_aligned
- * section. Since TSS's are completely CPU-local, we want them
- * on exact cacheline boundaries, to eliminate cacheline ping-pong.
- */
-DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, init_tss) = INIT_TSS;
-
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 1d92a5ab6e8b939613d6bfd7221133df2496b482..8aa532fa015d1af03111052ee22eb4296509a931 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@
 #include <asm/debugreg.h>
 #include <asm/nmi.h>
 
+/*
+ * per-CPU TSS segments. Threads are completely 'soft' on Linux,
+ * no more per-task TSS's. The TSS size is kept cacheline-aligned
+ * so they are allowed to end up in the .data..cacheline_aligned
+ * section. Since TSS's are completely CPU-local, we want them
+ * on exact cacheline boundaries, to eliminate cacheline ping-pong.
+ */
+DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, init_tss) = INIT_TSS;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned char, is_idle);
 static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(idle_notifier);