diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
index 3b5609f54c4b5e..50fbbe60e5074e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ union irq_ctx {
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(union irq_ctx *, hardirq_ctx);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(union irq_ctx *, softirq_ctx);
 
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(union irq_ctx, hardirq_stack);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(union irq_ctx, softirq_stack);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(union irq_ctx, hardirq_stack, THREAD_SIZE);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(union irq_ctx, softirq_stack, THREAD_SIZE);
 
 static void call_on_stack(void *func, void *stack)
 {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index d0bb52296fa3a8..bb899475355db8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	}
 
 #if !defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || !defined(CONFIG_SMP)
-	PERCPU(PAGE_SIZE)
+	PERCPU(THREAD_SIZE)
 #endif
 
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
index ce2dc655cd1d40..ab20d119a85d6e 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
@@ -138,6 +138,18 @@
 	DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..page_aligned")		\
 	__aligned(PAGE_SIZE)
 
+/*
+ * Declaration/definition used for large per-CPU variables that must be
+ * aligned to something larger than the pagesize.
+ */
+#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(type, name, size)		\
+	DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..page_aligned")		\
+	__aligned(size)
+
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(type, name, size)		\
+	DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..page_aligned")		\
+	__aligned(size)
+
 /*
  * Intermodule exports for per-CPU variables.  sparse forgets about
  * address space across EXPORT_SYMBOL(), change EXPORT_SYMBOL() to