diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 15c671385f59..92af7b420ab2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -704,16 +704,21 @@ void __init early_cpu_init(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs with
- * family >= 6; unfortunately, that's not true in practice because
- * of early VIA chips and (more importantly) broken virtualizers that
- * are not easy to detect.  In the latter case it doesn't even *fail*
- * reliably, so probing for it doesn't even work.  Disable it completely
+ * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs of family >= 6;
+ * unfortunately, that's not true in practice because of early VIA
+ * chips and (more importantly) broken virtualizers that are not easy
+ * to detect. In the latter case it doesn't even *fail* reliably, so
+ * probing for it doesn't even work. Disable it completely on 32-bit
  * unless we can find a reliable way to detect all the broken cases.
+ * Enable it explicitly on 64-bit for non-constant inputs of cpu_has().
  */
 static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
+#else
+	set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
+#endif
 }
 
 static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
index f668bb1f7d43..e765633f210e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct cpu_dev {
 extern const struct cpu_dev *const __x86_cpu_dev_start[],
 			    *const __x86_cpu_dev_end[];
 
+extern void get_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 extern void cpu_detect_cache_sizes(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 extern void get_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);