diff --git a/arch/tile/Makefile b/arch/tile/Makefile
index 55640cf92597b11f943173928b4d7d7437d4be14..3d15364c60714bf661da140c8f6e67cde20001b3 100644
--- a/arch/tile/Makefile
+++ b/arch/tile/Makefile
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ $(error Set TILERA_ROOT or CROSS_COMPILE when building $(ARCH) on $(HOST_ARCH))
   endif
 endif
 
+# The tile compiler may emit .eh_frame information for backtracing.
+# In kernel modules, this causes load failures due to unsupported relocations.
+KBUILD_CFLAGS   += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
+
 ifneq ($(CONFIG_DEBUG_EXTRA_FLAGS),"")
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(CONFIG_DEBUG_EXTRA_FLAGS)
 endif
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/module.c b/arch/tile/kernel/module.c
index 001cbfa10ac6364a9136b9d4440bfe69730a08be..243ffebe38d69a510f16e53083c49b46f3e6531b 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/module.c
@@ -24,16 +24,6 @@
 #include <asm/homecache.h>
 #include <arch/opcode.h>
 
-#ifdef __tilegx__
-# define Elf_Rela Elf64_Rela
-# define ELF_R_SYM ELF64_R_SYM
-# define ELF_R_TYPE ELF64_R_TYPE
-#else
-# define Elf_Rela Elf32_Rela
-# define ELF_R_SYM ELF32_R_SYM
-# define ELF_R_TYPE ELF32_R_TYPE
-#endif
-
 #ifdef MODULE_DEBUG
 #define DEBUGP printk
 #else