diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 671bc6fd557c..1d7122a1883e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ config X86
 	select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
 	select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
 	select ARCH_HAS_KCOV			if X86_64
+	select ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT
 	select ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
 	select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
 	select ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 5ab93fcdd691..164498b3382a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -74,6 +74,26 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx
 KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += --target=$(objtree)/scripts/target.json
 KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += -Ctarget-feature=-sse,-sse2,-sse3,-ssse3,-sse4.1,-sse4.2,-avx,-avx2
 
+#
+# CFLAGS for compiling floating point code inside the kernel.
+#
+CC_FLAGS_FPU := -msse -msse2
+ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
+# Stack alignment mismatch, proceed with caution.
+# GCC < 7.1 cannot compile code using `double` and -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3
+# (8B stack alignment).
+# See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53383
+#
+# The "-msse" in the first argument is there so that the
+# -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 build error:
+#
+#  -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 is not between 4 and 12
+#
+# can be triggered. Otherwise gcc doesn't complain.
+CC_FLAGS_FPU += -mhard-float
+CC_FLAGS_FPU += $(call cc-option,-msse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=4)
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT),y)
 #
 # Kernel IBT has S_CET.NOTRACK_EN=0, as such the compilers must not generate
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b2743fe19339
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2023 SiFive
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_X86_FPU_H
+#define _ASM_X86_FPU_H
+
+#include <asm/fpu/api.h>
+
+#define kernel_fpu_available()	true
+
+#endif /* ! _ASM_X86_FPU_H */