diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/current.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/current.h
index 2e61d21294ba..483a6c9d3e10 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/current.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/current.h
@@ -10,9 +10,17 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
 struct task_struct;
 
+/*
+ * We don't use read_sysreg() as we want the compiler to cache the value where
+ * possible.
+ */
 static __always_inline struct task_struct *get_current(void)
 {
-	return (struct task_struct *)read_sysreg(sp_el0);
+	unsigned long sp_el0;
+
+	asm ("mrs %0, sp_el0" : "=r" (sp_el0));
+
+	return (struct task_struct *)sp_el0;
 }
 #define current get_current()
 #else