diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 7862a8101747..b0d39a927fbc 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ kallsyms_step()
 	kallsyms_S=${kallsyms_vmlinux}.S
 
 	vmlinux_link ${kallsyms_vmlinux} "${kallsymso_prev}" ${btf_vmlinux_bin_o}
-	mksysmap ${kallsyms_vmlinux} ${kallsyms_vmlinux}.syms ${kallsymso_prev}
+	mksysmap ${kallsyms_vmlinux} ${kallsyms_vmlinux}.syms
 	kallsyms ${kallsyms_vmlinux}.syms ${kallsyms_S}
 
 	info AS ${kallsyms_S}
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ kallsyms_step()
 mksysmap()
 {
 	info NM ${2}
-	${CONFIG_SHELL} "${srctree}/scripts/mksysmap" ${1} ${2} ${3}
+	${CONFIG_SHELL} "${srctree}/scripts/mksysmap" ${1} ${2}
 }
 
 sorttable()
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ if is_enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF && is_enabled CONFIG_BPF; then
 	${RESOLVE_BTFIDS} vmlinux
 fi
 
-mksysmap vmlinux System.map ${kallsymso}
+mksysmap vmlinux System.map
 
 if is_enabled CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT; then
 	info SORTTAB vmlinux
diff --git a/scripts/mksysmap b/scripts/mksysmap
index 57ff5656d566..e46bafe333bd 100755
--- a/scripts/mksysmap
+++ b/scripts/mksysmap
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # tools to retrieve the actual addresses of symbols in the kernel.
 #
 # Usage
-# mksysmap vmlinux System.map [exclude]
+# mksysmap vmlinux System.map
 
 
 #####
@@ -92,13 +92,4 @@ ${NM} -n ${1} | sed >${2} -e "
 # ppc stub
 /\.long_branch\./d
 /\.plt_branch\./d
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Ignored kallsyms symbols
-#
-# If the 3rd parameter exists, symbols from it will be omitted from the output.
-# This makes kallsyms have the identical symbol lists in the step 1 and 2.
-# Without this, the step2 would get new symbols generated by scripts/kallsyms.c
-# when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL is enabled. That might require one more pass.
-$(if [ $# -ge 3 ]; then ${NM} ${3} | sed -n '/ U /!s:.* \([^ ]*\)$:/ \1$/d:p'; fi)
 "