diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c
index 1aea7c7c683c..d352c2b05f1a 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static void get_sysnames(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long,
 			 char **, char **);
 static void determine_cpu_caches (unsigned int);
 
-static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
+static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
 
 /*
  * The format of "screen_info" is strange, and due to early
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	} else {
 		strlcpy(command_line, COMMAND_LINE, sizeof command_line);
 	}
-	strcpy(saved_command_line, command_line);
+	strcpy(boot_command_line, command_line);
 	*cmdline_p = command_line;
 
 	/* 
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	}
 
 	/* Replace the command line, now that we've killed it with strsep.  */
-	strcpy(command_line, saved_command_line);
+	strcpy(command_line, boot_command_line);
 
 	/* If we want SRM console printk echoing early, do it now. */
 	if (alpha_using_srm && srmcons_output) {