diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
index ddb8b24b823d..3ff21b536f28 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ config PARISC
 	select IRQ_PER_CPU
 	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
+	select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
 
 	help
 	  The PA-RISC microprocessor is designed by Hewlett-Packard and used
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/smp.h
index e8f8037d872b..a5dc9066c6d8 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/smp.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/smp.h
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ typedef unsigned long address_t;
 #define cpu_number_map(cpu)	(cpu)
 #define cpu_logical_map(cpu)	(cpu)
 
-extern void smp_send_reschedule(int cpu);
 extern void smp_send_all_nop(void);
 
 extern void arch_send_call_function_single_ipi(int cpu);
@@ -50,6 +49,5 @@ static inline void __cpu_die (unsigned int cpu) {
   while(1)
     ;
 }
-extern int __cpu_up (unsigned int cpu);
 
 #endif /*  __ASM_SMP_H */
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 9ac066086f03..4ba2c93770f1 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -218,15 +218,14 @@ struct exception_data {
 extern unsigned long lcopy_to_user(void __user *, const void *, unsigned long);
 extern unsigned long lcopy_from_user(void *, const void __user *, unsigned long);
 extern unsigned long lcopy_in_user(void __user *, const void __user *, unsigned long);
-extern long lstrncpy_from_user(char *, const char __user *, long);
+extern long strncpy_from_user(char *, const char __user *, long);
 extern unsigned lclear_user(void __user *,unsigned long);
 extern long lstrnlen_user(const char __user *,long);
-
 /*
  * Complex access routines -- macros
  */
+#define user_addr_max() (~0UL)
 
-#define strncpy_from_user lstrncpy_from_user
 #define strnlen_user lstrnlen_user
 #define strlen_user(str) lstrnlen_user(str, 0x7fffffffL)
 #define clear_user lclear_user
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S b/arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S
index 535034217021..07ef351edd57 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@
 	 * entry (identifying the physical page) and %r23 up with
 	 * the from tlb entry (or nothing if only a to entry---for
 	 * clear_user_page_asm) */
-	.macro		do_alias	spc,tmp,tmp1,va,pte,prot,fault
+	.macro		do_alias	spc,tmp,tmp1,va,pte,prot,fault,patype
 	cmpib,COND(<>),n 0,\spc,\fault
 	ldil		L%(TMPALIAS_MAP_START),\tmp
 #if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && (TMPALIAS_MAP_START >= 0x80000000)
@@ -581,11 +581,15 @@
 	 */
 	cmpiclr,=	0x01,\tmp,%r0
 	ldi		(_PAGE_DIRTY|_PAGE_READ|_PAGE_WRITE),\prot
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+.ifc \patype,20
 	depd,z		\prot,8,7,\prot
-#else
+.else
+.ifc \patype,11
 	depw,z		\prot,8,7,\prot
-#endif
+.else
+	.error "undefined PA type to do_alias"
+.endif
+.endif
 	/*
 	 * OK, it is in the temp alias region, check whether "from" or "to".
 	 * Check "subtle" note in pacache.S re: r23/r26.
@@ -1189,7 +1193,7 @@ dtlb_miss_20w:
 	nop
 
 dtlb_check_alias_20w:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,dtlb_fault
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,dtlb_fault,20
 
 	idtlbt          pte,prot
 
@@ -1213,7 +1217,7 @@ nadtlb_miss_20w:
 	nop
 
 nadtlb_check_alias_20w:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,nadtlb_emulate
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,nadtlb_emulate,20
 
 	idtlbt          pte,prot
 
@@ -1245,7 +1249,7 @@ dtlb_miss_11:
 	nop
 
 dtlb_check_alias_11:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,dtlb_fault
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,dtlb_fault,11
 
 	idtlba          pte,(va)
 	idtlbp          prot,(va)
@@ -1277,7 +1281,7 @@ nadtlb_miss_11:
 	nop
 
 nadtlb_check_alias_11:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,nadtlb_emulate
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,nadtlb_emulate,11
 
 	idtlba          pte,(va)
 	idtlbp          prot,(va)
@@ -1304,7 +1308,7 @@ dtlb_miss_20:
 	nop
 
 dtlb_check_alias_20:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,dtlb_fault
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,dtlb_fault,20
 	
 	idtlbt          pte,prot
 
@@ -1330,7 +1334,7 @@ nadtlb_miss_20:
 	nop
 
 nadtlb_check_alias_20:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,nadtlb_emulate
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,nadtlb_emulate,20
 
 	idtlbt          pte,prot
 
@@ -1457,7 +1461,7 @@ naitlb_miss_20w:
 	nop
 
 naitlb_check_alias_20w:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,naitlb_fault
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,naitlb_fault,20
 
 	iitlbt		pte,prot
 
@@ -1511,7 +1515,7 @@ naitlb_miss_11:
 	nop
 
 naitlb_check_alias_11:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,itlb_fault
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,itlb_fault,11
 
 	iitlba          pte,(%sr0, va)
 	iitlbp          prot,(%sr0, va)
@@ -1557,7 +1561,7 @@ naitlb_miss_20:
 	nop
 
 naitlb_check_alias_20:
-	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,naitlb_fault
+	do_alias	spc,t0,t1,va,pte,prot,naitlb_fault,20
 
 	iitlbt          pte,prot
 
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
index a7bb757a5497..ceec85de6290 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cmpxchg_u64);
 #endif
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrncpy_from_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lclear_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrnlen_user);
 
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index fa6f2b8163e0..64a999882e4f 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ SECTIONS
 	. = KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START;
 
 	_text = .;		/* Text and read-only data */
-	.text ALIGN(16) : {
+	.head ALIGN(16) : {
 		HEAD_TEXT
+	} = 0
+	.text ALIGN(16) : {
 		TEXT_TEXT
 		SCHED_TEXT
 		LOCK_TEXT
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.fixup)
 		*(.lock.text)		/* out-of-line lock text */
 		*(.gnu.warning)
-	} = 0
+	}
 	/* End of text section */
 	_etext = .;
 
diff --git a/arch/parisc/lib/lusercopy.S b/arch/parisc/lib/lusercopy.S
index 1bd23ccec17b..6f2d9355efe2 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/lib/lusercopy.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/lib/lusercopy.S
@@ -60,47 +60,6 @@
 	bv          %r0(%r1)
 	.endm
 
-	/*
-	 * long lstrncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char *src, long n)
-	 *
-	 * Returns -EFAULT if exception before terminator,
-	 *         N if the entire buffer filled,
-	 *         otherwise strlen (i.e. excludes zero byte)
-	 */
-
-ENTRY(lstrncpy_from_user)
-	.proc
-	.callinfo NO_CALLS
-	.entry
-	comib,=     0,%r24,$lsfu_done
-	copy        %r24,%r23
-	get_sr
-1:      ldbs,ma     1(%sr1,%r25),%r1
-$lsfu_loop:
-	stbs,ma     %r1,1(%r26)
-	comib,=,n   0,%r1,$lsfu_done
-	addib,<>,n  -1,%r24,$lsfu_loop
-2:      ldbs,ma     1(%sr1,%r25),%r1
-$lsfu_done:
-	sub         %r23,%r24,%r28
-$lsfu_exit:
-	bv          %r0(%r2)
-	nop
-	.exit
-ENDPROC(lstrncpy_from_user)
-
-	.section .fixup,"ax"
-3:      fixup_branch $lsfu_exit
-	ldi         -EFAULT,%r28
-	.previous
-
-	.section __ex_table,"aw"
-	ASM_ULONG_INSN 1b,3b
-	ASM_ULONG_INSN 2b,3b
-	.previous
-
-	.procend
-
 	/*
 	 * unsigned long lclear_user(void *to, unsigned long n)
 	 *