diff --git a/arch/xtensa/Kconfig b/arch/xtensa/Kconfig
index ea9f63c7672d..bf492f9e1f75 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/Kconfig
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ config XTENSA
 	select GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
 	select GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
 	select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER if KASAN
-	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
-	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if MMU
+	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL if !XIP_KERNEL
+	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if MMU && !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
@@ -299,6 +299,9 @@ config XTENSA_CALIBRATE_CCOUNT
 config SERIAL_CONSOLE
 	def_bool n
 
+config PLATFORM_HAVE_XIP
+	def_bool n
+
 menu "Platform options"
 
 choice
@@ -325,6 +328,7 @@ config XTENSA_PLATFORM_XTFPGA
 	select PLATFORM_WANT_DEFAULT_MEM if !MMU
 	select SERIAL_CONSOLE
 	select XTENSA_CALIBRATE_CCOUNT
+	select PLATFORM_HAVE_XIP
 	help
 	  XTFPGA is the name of Tensilica board family (LX60, LX110, LX200, ML605).
 	  This hardware is capable of running a full Linux distribution.
@@ -478,6 +482,27 @@ config INITIALIZE_XTENSA_MMU_INSIDE_VMLINUX
 
 	  If in doubt, say Y.
 
+config XIP_KERNEL
+	bool "Kernel Execute-In-Place from ROM"
+	depends on PLATFORM_HAVE_XIP
+	help
+	  Execute-In-Place allows the kernel to run from non-volatile storage
+	  directly addressable by the CPU, such as NOR flash. This saves RAM
+	  space since the text section of the kernel is not loaded from flash
+	  to RAM. Read-write sections, such as the data section and stack,
+	  are still copied to RAM. The XIP kernel is not compressed since
+	  it has to run directly from flash, so it will take more space to
+	  store it. The flash address used to link the kernel object files,
+	  and for storing it, is configuration dependent. Therefore, if you
+	  say Y here, you must know the proper physical address where to
+	  store the kernel image depending on your own flash memory usage.
+
+	  Also note that the make target becomes "make xipImage" rather than
+	  "make Image" or "make uImage". The final kernel binary to put in
+	  ROM memory will be arch/xtensa/boot/xipImage.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config MEMMAP_CACHEATTR
 	hex "Cache attributes for the memory address space"
 	depends on !MMU
@@ -522,6 +547,16 @@ config KSEG_PADDR
 
 	  If unsure, leave the default value here.
 
+config KERNEL_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS
+	hex "Kernel virtual address"
+	depends on MMU && XIP_KERNEL
+	default 0xd0003000
+	help
+	  This is the virtual address where the XIP kernel is mapped.
+	  XIP kernel may be mapped into KSEG or KIO region, virtual address
+	  provided here must match kernel load address provided in
+	  KERNEL_LOAD_ADDRESS.
+
 config KERNEL_LOAD_ADDRESS
 	hex "Kernel load address"
 	default 0x60003000 if !MMU
@@ -537,12 +572,21 @@ config KERNEL_LOAD_ADDRESS
 config VECTORS_OFFSET
 	hex "Kernel vectors offset"
 	default 0x00003000
+	depends on !XIP_KERNEL
 	help
 	  This is the offset of the kernel image from the relocatable vectors
 	  base.
 
 	  If unsure, leave the default value here.
 
+config XIP_DATA_ADDR
+	hex "XIP kernel data virtual address"
+	depends on XIP_KERNEL
+	default 0x00000000
+	help
+	  This is the virtual address where XIP kernel data is copied.
+	  It must be within KSEG if MMU is used.
+
 config PLATFORM_WANT_DEFAULT_MEM
 	def_bool n
 
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/Makefile b/arch/xtensa/Makefile
index 1542018c9e57..67a7d151d1e7 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/Makefile
+++ b/arch/xtensa/Makefile
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ drivers-$(CONFIG_OPROFILE)	+= arch/xtensa/oprofile/
 
 boot		:= arch/xtensa/boot
 
-all Image zImage uImage: vmlinux
+all Image zImage uImage xipImage: vmlinux
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $@
 
 archheaders:
@@ -97,4 +97,5 @@ define archhelp
   @echo '* Image       - Kernel ELF image with reset vector'
   @echo '* zImage      - Compressed kernel image (arch/xtensa/boot/images/zImage.*)'
   @echo '* uImage      - U-Boot wrapped image'
+  @echo '  xipImage    - XIP image'
 endef
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile b/arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile
index 294846117fc2..efb91bfda2b4 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ all: $(boot-y)
 Image: boot-elf
 zImage: boot-redboot
 uImage: $(obj)/uImage
+xipImage: $(obj)/xipImage
 
 boot-elf boot-redboot: $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(subdir-y))
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(obj)/$@ $(MAKECMDGOALS)
@@ -50,3 +51,7 @@ UIMAGE_COMPRESSION = gzip
 $(obj)/uImage: vmlinux.bin.gz FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,uimage)
 	$(Q)$(kecho) '  Kernel: $@ is ready'
+
+$(obj)/xipImage: vmlinux FORCE
+	$(call if_changed,objcopy)
+	$(Q)$(kecho) '  Kernel: $@ is ready'
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/xip_kc705_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/xip_kc705_defconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f9e85c082afc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/xip_kc705_defconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
+CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
+CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y
+CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
+CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
+CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y
+CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
+CONFIG_MEMCG=y
+CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y
+CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE=y
+CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y
+CONFIG_CGROUP_DEBUG=y
+CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
+CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y
+CONFIG_RELAY=y
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
+CONFIG_EXPERT=y
+CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
+CONFIG_PROFILING=y
+CONFIG_XTENSA_VARIANT_DC233C=y
+CONFIG_XTENSA_UNALIGNED_USER=y
+CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL=y
+CONFIG_XIP_DATA_ADDR=0xd0000000
+CONFIG_KERNEL_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS=0xe6000000
+CONFIG_KERNEL_LOAD_ADDRESS=0xf6000000
+CONFIG_XTENSA_KSEG_512M=y
+CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
+CONFIG_XTENSA_PLATFORM_XTFPGA=y
+CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y
+CONFIG_CMDLINE="earlycon=uart8250,mmio32native,0xfd050020,115200n8 console=ttyS0,115200n8 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs rw debug memmap=0x38000000@0"
+CONFIG_USE_OF=y
+CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB_SOURCE="kc705"
+# CONFIG_PARSE_BOOTPARAM is not set
+CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
+# CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is not set
+# CONFIG_COMPACTION is not set
+CONFIG_NET=y
+CONFIG_PACKET=y
+CONFIG_UNIX=y
+CONFIG_INET=y
+CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
+CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
+CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
+CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
+CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y
+# CONFIG_IPV6 is not set
+CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
+# CONFIG_WIRELESS is not set
+CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=y
+CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
+CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
+# CONFIG_STANDALONE is not set
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
+CONFIG_SCSI=y
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
+CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ARC is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_AURORA is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_INTEL is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MARVELL is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MICREL is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NATSEMI is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SAMSUNG is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SEEQ is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMSC is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_STMICRO is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_VIA is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_WIZNET is not set
+CONFIG_MARVELL_PHY=y
+# CONFIG_WLAN is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set
+# CONFIG_SERIO is not set
+CONFIG_DEVKMEM=y
+CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
+# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS is not set
+CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
+CONFIG_SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM=y
+# CONFIG_HWMON is not set
+CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
+CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT=y
+CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y
+# CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set
+# CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT is not set
+# CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT is not set
+CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
+CONFIG_FANOTIFY=y
+CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
+CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
+CONFIG_TMPFS=y
+CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
+CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
+CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
+CONFIG_NFS_SWAP=y
+CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y
+CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG=y
+CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
+CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
+CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV=y
+CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=y
+CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZO=y
+CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG=y
+CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
+CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
+CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
+CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK=y
+# CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set
+CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y
+CONFIG_STACKTRACE=y
+CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y
+# CONFIG_FTRACE is not set
+# CONFIG_S32C1I_SELFTEST is not set
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/cache.h
index b21fd133ff62..54e147ac26bf 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -31,4 +31,10 @@
 
 #define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN	L1_CACHE_BYTES
 
+/*
+ * R/O after init is actually writable, it cannot go to .rodata
+ * according to vmlinux linker script.
+ */
+#define __ro_after_init __read_mostly
+
 #endif	/* _XTENSA_CACHE_H */
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h
index 09c56cba442e..f4771c29c7e9 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h
@@ -169,7 +169,18 @@ static inline unsigned long ___pa(unsigned long va)
 	if (off >= XCHAL_KSEG_SIZE)
 		off -= XCHAL_KSEG_SIZE;
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
 	return off + PHYS_OFFSET;
+#else
+	if (off < XCHAL_KSEG_SIZE)
+		return off + PHYS_OFFSET;
+
+	off -= XCHAL_KSEG_SIZE;
+	if (off >= XCHAL_KIO_SIZE)
+		off -= XCHAL_KIO_SIZE;
+
+	return off + XCHAL_KIO_PADDR;
+#endif
 }
 #define __pa(x)	___pa((unsigned long)(x))
 #else
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/vectors.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/vectors.h
index 4220c6dac44f..fd99b25037a7 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/vectors.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/vectors.h
@@ -22,9 +22,13 @@
 #include <asm/kmem_layout.h>
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && XCHAL_HAVE_PTP_MMU && XCHAL_HAVE_SPANNING_WAY
+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS
+#define KERNELOFFSET			CONFIG_KERNEL_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS
+#else
 #define KERNELOFFSET			(CONFIG_KERNEL_LOAD_ADDRESS + \
 					 XCHAL_KSEG_CACHED_VADDR - \
 					 XCHAL_KSEG_PADDR)
+#endif
 #else
 #define KERNELOFFSET			CONFIG_KERNEL_LOAD_ADDRESS
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/head.S b/arch/xtensa/kernel/head.S
index 2cec13a457d7..e0c1fac0910f 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/head.S
@@ -260,6 +260,13 @@ ENTRY(_startup)
 	___invalidate_icache_all a2 a3
 	isync
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
+	/* Setup bootstrap CPU stack in XIP kernel */
+
+	movi	a1, start_info
+	l32i	a1, a1, 0
+#endif
+
 	movi	a6, 0
 	xsr	a6, excsave1
 
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c b/arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c
index e0e1e1892b86..0f93b67c7a5a 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c
@@ -308,6 +308,10 @@ extern char _Level6InterruptVector_text_end;
 extern char _SecondaryResetVector_text_start;
 extern char _SecondaryResetVector_text_end;
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
+extern char _xip_start[];
+extern char _xip_end[];
+#endif
 
 static inline int __init_memblock mem_reserve(unsigned long start,
 					      unsigned long end)
@@ -339,6 +343,9 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 #endif
 
 	mem_reserve(__pa(_stext), __pa(_end));
+#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
+	mem_reserve(__pa(_xip_start), __pa(_xip_end));
+#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_VECTORS_OFFSET
 	mem_reserve(__pa(&_WindowVectors_text_start),
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 943f10639a93..01e3112cdb27 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ SECTIONS
   NOTES
   /* Data section */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
+  INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
+#else
   _sdata = .;
   RW_DATA_SECTION(XCHAL_ICACHE_LINESIZE, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE)
   _edata = .;
@@ -147,6 +150,11 @@ SECTIONS
   .init.data :
   {
     INIT_DATA
+  }
+#endif
+
+  .init.rodata :
+  {
     . = ALIGN(0x4);
     __tagtable_begin = .;
     *(.taglist)
@@ -187,12 +195,16 @@ SECTIONS
     RELOCATE_ENTRY(_DebugInterruptVector_text,
 		   .DebugInterruptVector.text);
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
+    RELOCATE_ENTRY(_xip_data, .data);
+    RELOCATE_ENTRY(_xip_init_data, .init.data);
+#else
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
     RELOCATE_ENTRY(_SecondaryResetVector_text,
 		   .SecondaryResetVector.text);
+#endif
 #endif
 
-  
     __boot_reloc_table_end = ABSOLUTE(.) ;
 
     INIT_SETUP(XCHAL_ICACHE_LINESIZE)
@@ -278,7 +290,7 @@ SECTIONS
   . = (LOADADDR( .DoubleExceptionVector.text ) + SIZEOF( .DoubleExceptionVector.text ) + 3) & ~ 3;
 
 #endif
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+#if !defined(CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
 
   SECTION_VECTOR (_SecondaryResetVector_text,
 		  .SecondaryResetVector.text,
@@ -291,12 +303,48 @@ SECTIONS
 
   . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
   __init_end = .;
 
   BSS_SECTION(0, 8192, 0)
+#endif
 
   _end = .;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
+  . = CONFIG_XIP_DATA_ADDR;
+
+  _xip_start = .;
+
+#undef LOAD_OFFSET
+#define LOAD_OFFSET \
+  (CONFIG_XIP_DATA_ADDR - (LOADADDR(.dummy) + SIZEOF(.dummy) + 3) & ~ 3)
+
+  _xip_data_start = .;
+  _sdata = .;
+  RW_DATA_SECTION(XCHAL_ICACHE_LINESIZE, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE)
+  _edata = .;
+  _xip_data_end = .;
+
+  /* Initialization data: */
+
+  STRUCT_ALIGN();
+
+  _xip_init_data_start = .;
+  __init_begin = .;
+  .init.data :
+  {
+    INIT_DATA
+  }
+  _xip_init_data_end = .;
+  __init_end = .;
+  BSS_SECTION(0, 8192, 0)
+
+  _xip_end = .;
+
+#undef LOAD_OFFSET
+#endif
+
   DWARF_DEBUG
 
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