diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index c84373626336..a005cac5e302 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
 #include <linux/lockdep.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
+extern int rcutorture_runnable; /* for sysctl */
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST */
+
 /**
  * struct rcu_head - callback structure for use with RCU
  * @next: next update requests in a list
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index a8fd10a9a501..f18aaa7b0d65 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
 #ifndef CONFIG_MMU
 extern int sysctl_nr_trim_pages;
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
-extern int rcutorture_runnable;
-#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST */
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 extern int blk_iopoll_enabled;
 #endif