diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index c45b770d3579..129df498a8e1 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -285,6 +285,13 @@ config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
 	bool
 
+config ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
+	bool
+	help
+	  An architecture should select this if the noinstr macro is being used on
+	  functions to denote that the toolchain should avoid instrumenting such
+	  functions and is required for correctness.
+
 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
 	bool
 	depends on !64BIT
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 9f1d8566bbf9..39bf982b06f8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
 	select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if ARM64_4K_PAGES || (ARM64_16K_PAGES && !ARM64_VA_BITS_36)
 	select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
+	select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
 	select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
 	select ARM_AMBA
 	select ARM_ARCH_TIMER
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index b4c7c34069f8..bd60310f33b9 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ config S390
 	select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
 	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
 	select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
+	select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
 	select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
 	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 	select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 12fa0d7bfa64..268a5dec8b3f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ config X86
 	select ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
 	select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT	if X86_64
 	select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
+	select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
 	select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
 	select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
 	select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP		if X86_64
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 1ea12c64e4c9..31397a7a45fb 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
 config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
 	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
 
+config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR
+	def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror)
+
 config CONSTRUCTORS
 	bool
 
diff --git a/kernel/gcov/Kconfig b/kernel/gcov/Kconfig
index 58f87a3092f3..053447183ac5 100644
--- a/kernel/gcov/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/gcov/Kconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config GCOV_KERNEL
 	bool "Enable gcov-based kernel profiling"
 	depends on DEBUG_FS
 	depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 110000
+	depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR
 	select CONSTRUCTORS
 	default n
 	help