diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 06d5c3560f50..0db5ed3986d1 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -765,6 +765,16 @@ else
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   += -O3
 endif
 
+ifdef CONFIG_LLVM_POLLY
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -mllvm -polly \
+		           -mllvm -polly-run-inliner \
+		           -mllvm -polly-opt-fusion=max \
+		           -mllvm -polly-ast-use-context \
+		           -mllvm -polly-detect-keep-going \
+		           -mllvm -polly-vectorizer=stripmine \
+		           -mllvm -polly-invariant-load-hoisting
+endif
+
 # Tell gcc to never replace conditional load with a non-conditional one
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,--param=allow-store-data-races=0)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fno-allow-store-data-races)
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 73564ba7ab31..0f7f9dba731a 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -754,6 +754,14 @@ config SHADOW_CALL_STACK_VMAP
 	  provides better stack exhaustion protection, but increases per-thread
 	  memory consumption as a full page is allocated for each shadow stack.
 
+config LLVM_POLLY
+	bool "Enable LLVM's polyhedral loop optimizer (Polly)"
+	help
+	  This option enables LLVM's polyhedral loop optimizer known as Polly.
+	  Polly is able to optimize various loops throughout the kernel for
+	  maximum cache locality. This requires an LLVM toolchain explicitly
+	  compiled with Polly support.
+
 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
 	bool
 	help