diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
index 6fca17beee2..79fcafc7fd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
@@ -250,6 +250,10 @@ You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch.
 - If the system call table on this arch is more complicated than a simple array
   of addresses of the system calls, implement an arch_syscall_addr to return
   the address of a given system call.
+- If the symbol names of the system calls do not match the function names on
+  this arch, define ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_MATCH_SYM_NAME in asm/ftrace.h and
+  implement arch_syscall_match_sym_name with the appropriate logic to return
+  true if the function name corresponds with the symbol name.
 - Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
 
 
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index af831545f65..86a23e7de03 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -60,6 +60,19 @@ extern struct syscall_metadata *__stop_syscalls_metadata[];
 
 static struct syscall_metadata **syscalls_metadata;
 
+#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_MATCH_SYM_NAME
+static inline bool arch_syscall_match_sym_name(const char *sym, const char *name)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Only compare after the "sys" prefix. Archs that use
+	 * syscall wrappers may have syscalls symbols aliases prefixed
+	 * with "SyS" instead of "sys", leading to an unwanted
+	 * mismatch.
+	 */
+	return !strcmp(sym + 3, name + 3);
+}
+#endif
+
 static __init struct syscall_metadata *
 find_syscall_meta(unsigned long syscall)
 {
@@ -73,13 +86,7 @@ find_syscall_meta(unsigned long syscall)
 	kallsyms_lookup(syscall, NULL, NULL, NULL, str);
 
 	for ( ; start < stop; start++) {
-		/*
-		 * Only compare after the "sys" prefix. Archs that use
-		 * syscall wrappers may have syscalls symbols aliases prefixed
-		 * with "SyS" instead of "sys", leading to an unwanted
-		 * mismatch.
-		 */
-		if ((*start)->name && !strcmp((*start)->name + 3, str + 3))
+		if ((*start)->name && arch_syscall_match_sym_name(str, (*start)->name))
 			return *start;
 	}
 	return NULL;