diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 0c82a610fb54..1bbf943fe9e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ else
 
         # Don't autogenerate traditional x87 instructions
         KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-80387
-        KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mno-fp-ret-in-387)
+        KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-fp-ret-in-387
 
         # By default gcc and clang use a stack alignment of 16 bytes for x86.
         # However the standard kernel entry on x86-64 leaves the stack on an