diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmap_stack.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmap_stack.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0b5ec6e08c10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmap_stack.h
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+// Copyright (C) 2017 Arm Ltd.
+#ifndef __ASM_VMAP_STACK_H
+#define __ASM_VMAP_STACK_H
+
+#include <linux/bug.h>
+#include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/kconfig.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <asm/memory.h>
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+#include <asm/thread_info.h>
+
+/*
+ * To ensure that VMAP'd stack overflow detection works correctly, all VMAP'd
+ * stacks need to have the same alignment.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long *arch_alloc_vmap_stack(size_t stack_size, int node)
+{
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK));
+
+	return __vmalloc_node_range(stack_size, THREAD_ALIGN,
+				    VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
+				    THREADINFO_GFP, PAGE_KERNEL, 0, node,
+				    __builtin_return_address(0));
+}
+
+#endif /* __ASM_VMAP_STACK_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c
index 713561e5bcab..60e5fc661f74 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/irqchip.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <asm/vmap_stack.h>
 
 unsigned long irq_err_count;
 
@@ -58,17 +59,7 @@ static void init_irq_stacks(void)
 	unsigned long *p;
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
-		/*
-		* To ensure that VMAP'd stack overflow detection works
-		* correctly, the IRQ stacks need to have the same
-		* alignment as other stacks.
-		*/
-		p = __vmalloc_node_range(IRQ_STACK_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN,
-					 VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
-					 THREADINFO_GFP, PAGE_KERNEL,
-					 0, cpu_to_node(cpu),
-					 __builtin_return_address(0));
-
+		p = arch_alloc_vmap_stack(IRQ_STACK_SIZE, cpu_to_node(cpu));
 		per_cpu(irq_stack_ptr, cpu) = p;
 	}
 }