diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
index b0720c7c3fcf..700fcdac2e3c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_SOCKETCALL
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_FADVISE64
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_GETPGRP
+#define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_LLSEEK
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_NICE
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_OLD_GETRLIMIT
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_OLD_UNAME
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 59d819c5b92e..bbfa9b12b15e 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(lseek, unsigned int, fd, compat_off_t, offset, unsigned i
 }
 #endif
 
-#if !defined(CONFIG_64BIT) || defined(CONFIG_COMPAT)
+#if !defined(CONFIG_64BIT) || defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) || \
+	defined(__ARCH_WANT_SYS_LLSEEK)
 SYSCALL_DEFINE5(llseek, unsigned int, fd, unsigned long, offset_high,
 		unsigned long, offset_low, loff_t __user *, result,
 		unsigned int, whence)