diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 939ea7f6a228..56cf6000d286 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ config RISCV
 	select ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK if PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2
 	select ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 	select ARCH_HAS_BINFMT_FLAT
+	select ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT
 	select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
 	select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL if MMU
 	select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
@@ -1153,6 +1154,15 @@ endmenu # "Power management options"
 
 menu "CPU Power Management"
 
+config RISCV_ZAWRS_IDLE
+	bool "Idle thread using ZAWRS extensions"
+	depends on RISCV_ISA_ZAWRS
+	default y
+	help
+		Adds support to implement idle thread using ZAWRS extension.
+
+		If you don't know what to do here, say Y.
+
 source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpuidle.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpuidle.h
index 71fdc607d4bc..94c9ecb46571 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpuidle.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpuidle.h
@@ -10,15 +10,6 @@
 #include <asm/barrier.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 
-static inline void cpu_do_idle(void)
-{
-	/*
-	 * Add mb() here to ensure that all
-	 * IO/MEM accesses are completed prior
-	 * to entering WFI.
-	 */
-	mb();
-	wait_for_interrupt();
-}
+void cpu_do_idle(void);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
index efa1b3519b23..d0dcdb7e7392 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 #include <vdso/processor.h>
 
+#include <asm/insn-def.h>
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 
 #define arch_get_mmap_end(addr, len, flags)			\
@@ -148,6 +149,21 @@ static inline void wait_for_interrupt(void)
 	__asm__ __volatile__ ("wfi");
 }
 
+static inline void wrs_nto(unsigned long *addr)
+{
+	int val;
+
+	__asm__ __volatile__(
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+			"lr.d %[p], %[v]\n\t"
+#else
+			"lr.w %[p], %[v]\n\t"
+#endif
+			ZAWRS_WRS_NTO "\n\t"
+			: [p] "=&r" (val), [v] "+A" (*addr)
+			: : "memory");
+}
+
 extern phys_addr_t dma32_phys_limit;
 
 struct device_node;
@@ -177,6 +193,8 @@ extern int set_unalign_ctl(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int val);
 #define RISCV_SET_ICACHE_FLUSH_CTX(arg1, arg2)	riscv_set_icache_flush_ctx(arg1, arg2)
 extern int riscv_set_icache_flush_ctx(unsigned long ctx, unsigned long per_thread);
 
+extern void select_idle_routine(void);
+
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_RISCV_PROCESSOR_H */
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c
index f6b13e9f5e6c..97a7144fa6cd 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ bool arch_match_cpu_phys_id(int cpu, u64 phys_id)
 	return phys_id == cpuid_to_hartid_map(cpu);
 }
 
+void __init arch_cpu_finalize_init(void)
+{
+	select_idle_routine();
+}
+
 /*
  * Returns the hart ID of the given device tree node, or -ENODEV if the node
  * isn't an enabled and valid RISC-V hart node.
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
index e4bc61c4e58a..77769965609e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/tick.h>
 #include <linux/ptrace.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/static_call.h>
 
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
@@ -35,11 +36,49 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_guard);
 
 extern asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
 
-void noinstr arch_cpu_idle(void)
+static __cpuidle void default_idle(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Add mb() here to ensure that all
+	 * IO/MEM accesses are completed prior
+	 * to entering WFI.
+	 */
+	mb();
+	wait_for_interrupt();
+}
+
+static __cpuidle void wrs_idle(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Add mb() here to ensure that all
+	 * IO/MEM accesses are completed prior
+	 * to entering WRS.NTO.
+	 */
+	mb();
+	wrs_nto(&current_thread_info()->flags);
+}
+
+DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_NULL(riscv_idle, default_idle);
+
+void __cpuidle cpu_do_idle(void)
+{
+	static_call(riscv_idle)();
+}
+
+void __cpuidle arch_cpu_idle(void)
 {
 	cpu_do_idle();
 }
 
+void __init select_idle_routine(void)
+{
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ZAWRS_IDLE) &&
+			riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZAWRS))
+		static_call_update(riscv_idle, wrs_idle);
+	else
+		static_call_update(riscv_idle, default_idle);
+}
+
 int set_unalign_ctl(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int val)
 {
 	if (!unaligned_ctl_available())
