diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
index 1312bfaff306..9fd8030cc54f 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ ENTRY(startup_64)
 	movl	%eax, %ds
 	movl	%eax, %es
 	movl	%eax, %ss
+	movl	%eax, %fs
+	movl	%eax, %gs
+	lldt	%ax
+	movl    $0x20, %eax
+	ltr	%ax
 
 	/* Compute the decompressed kernel start address.  It is where
 	 * we were loaded at aligned to a 2M boundary. %rbp contains the
@@ -295,6 +300,8 @@ gdt:
 	.quad	0x0000000000000000	/* NULL descriptor */
 	.quad	0x00af9a000000ffff	/* __KERNEL_CS */
 	.quad	0x00cf92000000ffff	/* __KERNEL_DS */
+	.quad	0x0080890000000000	/* TS descriptor */
+	.quad   0x0000000000000000	/* TS continued */
 gdt_end:
 	.bss
 /* Stack for uncompression */