diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
index 147d61b9674e..16f73c102394 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ menuconfig DRM
 	select I2C_ALGOBIT
 	select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
 	select SYNC_FILE
+# gallium uses SYS_kcmp for os_same_file_description() to de-duplicate
+# device and dmabuf fd. Let's make sure that is available for our userspace.
+	select KCMP
 	help
 	  Kernel-level support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)
 	  introduced in XFree86 4.0. If you say Y here, you need to select
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 117b1c395ae4..2d5b172f490e 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ static struct epitem *ep_find(struct eventpoll *ep, struct file *file, int fd)
 	return epir;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_KCMP
 static struct epitem *ep_find_tfd(struct eventpoll *ep, int tfd, unsigned long toff)
 {
 	struct rb_node *rbp;
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ struct file *get_epoll_tfile_raw_ptr(struct file *file, int tfd,
 
 	return file_raw;
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE */
+#endif /* CONFIG_KCMP */
 
 /**
  * Adds a new entry to the tail of the list in a lockless way, i.e.
diff --git a/include/linux/eventpoll.h b/include/linux/eventpoll.h
index 8f000fada5a4..0df0de0cf45e 100644
--- a/include/linux/eventpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/eventpoll.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ struct file;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_KCMP
 struct file *get_epoll_tfile_raw_ptr(struct file *file, int tfd, unsigned long toff);
 #endif
 
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 0872a5a2e759..d559abf38c90 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1194,6 +1194,7 @@ endif # NAMESPACES
 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
 	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
 	select PROC_CHILDREN
+	select KCMP
 	default n
 	help
 	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
@@ -1737,6 +1738,16 @@ config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
 config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
 	bool
 
+config KCMP
+	bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT
+	help
+	  Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides
+	  user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they
+	  share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual
+	  memory space.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config RSEQ
 	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
 	default y
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 6c9f19911be0..88b60a6e5dd0 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ obj-y += livepatch/
 obj-y += dma/
 obj-y += entry/
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) += kcmp.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_KCMP) += kcmp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PROFILING) += profile.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_STACKTRACE) += stacktrace.o
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
index 26c72f2b61b1..1b6c7d33c4ff 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ TEST(kcmp)
 	ret = __filecmp(getpid(), getpid(), 1, 1);
 	EXPECT_EQ(ret, 0);
 	if (ret != 0 && errno == ENOSYS)
-		SKIP(return, "Kernel does not support kcmp() (missing CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE?)");
+		SKIP(return, "Kernel does not support kcmp() (missing CONFIG_KCMP?)");
 }
 
 TEST(mode_strict_support)