diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d0d2652db174..682652523a00 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1302,6 +1302,7 @@ _modinst_:
 	fi
 	@cp -f $(objtree)/modules.order $(MODLIB)/
 	@cp -f $(objtree)/modules.builtin $(MODLIB)/
+	@cp -f $(objtree)/kernel.builtin.modinfo $(MODLIB)/
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst
 
 # This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index ba36506db4fb..1ef1d8bd06ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -17,16 +17,11 @@
 /* Chosen so that structs with an unsigned long line up. */
 #define MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))
 
-#ifdef MODULE
 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)					  \
 static const char __UNIQUE_ID(name)[]					  \
   __used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1)))	  \
-  = __stringify(tag) "=" info
-#else  /* !MODULE */
-/* This struct is here for syntactic coherency, it is not used */
-#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)					  \
-  struct __UNIQUE_ID(name) {}
-#endif
+  = MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX __stringify(tag) "=" info
+
 #define __MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, _type)					  \
   __MODULE_INFO(parmtype, name##type, #name ":" _type)
 
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 9045823c7be7..5162fc7046ca 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -303,3 +303,8 @@ if [ -n "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS}" ]; then
 		exit 1
 	fi
 fi
+
+info MODINFO kernel.builtin.modinfo
+"${OBJCOPY}" -j .modinfo -O binary vmlinux kernel.builtin.modinfo
+chmod 444 kernel.builtin.modinfo
+"${OBJCOPY}" -R .modinfo vmlinux