diff --git a/include/trace/events/module.h b/include/trace/events/module.h
index c7bb2f0482fe..c6bae36547e5 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/module.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/module.h
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
+/*
+ * Because linux/module.h has tracepoints in the header, and ftrace.h
+ * eventually includes this file, define_trace.h includes linux/module.h
+ * But we do not want the module.h to override the TRACE_SYSTEM macro
+ * variable that define_trace.h is processing, so we only set it
+ * when module events are being processed, which would happen when
+ * CREATE_TRACE_POINTS is defined.
+ */
+#ifdef CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #undef TRACE_SYSTEM
 #define TRACE_SYSTEM module
+#endif
 
 #if !defined(_TRACE_MODULE_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
 #define _TRACE_MODULE_H