diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 423a4106f0dd1f..18aed761f9c04a 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ objtool_link()
 	local objtoolopt;
 
 	if [ -n "${CONFIG_VMLINUX_VALIDATION}" ]; then
-		objtoolopt="check --vmlinux"
+		objtoolopt="check --vmlinux --noinstr"
 		if [ -z "${CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER}" ]; then
 			objtoolopt="${objtoolopt} --no-fp"
 		fi
diff --git a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
index facfc10bc5dc3d..b84cdc72b51f1b 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "objtool.h"
 
-bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline, module, backtrace, uaccess, stats, validate_dup, vmlinux, mcount;
+bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline, module, backtrace, uaccess, stats, validate_dup, vmlinux, mcount, noinstr;
 
 static const char * const check_usage[] = {
 	"objtool check [<options>] file.o",
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ const struct option check_options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "uaccess", &uaccess, "enable uaccess checking"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "stats", &stats, "print statistics"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "duplicate", &validate_dup, "duplicate validation for vmlinux.o"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "noinstr", &noinstr, "noinstr validation for vmlinux.o"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('l', "vmlinux", &vmlinux, "vmlinux.o validation"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('M', "mcount", &mcount, "generate __mcount_loc"),
 	OPT_END(),
diff --git a/tools/objtool/builtin.h b/tools/objtool/builtin.h
index 94565a72b7010a..2502bb27de171e 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/builtin.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/builtin.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
 
 extern const struct option check_options[];
-extern bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline, module, backtrace, uaccess, stats, validate_dup, vmlinux, mcount;
+extern bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline, module, backtrace, uaccess, stats, validate_dup, vmlinux, mcount, noinstr;
 
 extern int cmd_check(int argc, const char **argv);
 extern int cmd_orc(int argc, const char **argv);
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index ab87fb92793ce2..85993e606782b3 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static void init_insn_state(struct insn_state *state, struct section *sec)
 	 * not correctly determine insn->call_dest->sec (external symbols do
 	 * not have a section).
 	 */
-	if (vmlinux && sec)
+	if (vmlinux && noinstr && sec)
 		state->noinstr = sec->noinstr;
 }