diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index af9bf749c4..418bdfaebf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ xen/arch/x86/efi/mkreloc
 xen/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-macros.h
 xen/arch/*/xen.lds
 xen/arch/*/efi/boot.c
+xen/arch/*/efi/common-stub.c
 xen/arch/*/efi/compat.c
 xen/arch/*/efi/ebmalloc.c
 xen/arch/*/efi/efi.h
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile b/xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile
index bd954a3b2d..2459cbae3a 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile
@@ -4,11 +4,7 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM_EFI),y)
 obj-y += $(EFIOBJ-y)
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI) +=  efi-dom0.init.o
 else
-# Add stub.o to EFIOBJ-y to re-use the clean-files in
-# efi-common.mk. Otherwise the link of stub.c in arm/efi
-# will not be cleaned in "make clean".
-EFIOBJ-y += stub.o
-obj-y += stub.o
+obj-y += common-stub.o
 
 $(obj)/stub.o: CFLAGS-y += -fno-short-wchar
 
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile b/xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile
index 034ec87895..24dfecfad1 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ $(obj)/boot.init.o: $(obj)/buildid.o
 $(call cc-option-add,cflags-stack-boundary,CC,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=4)
 $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(EFIOBJ-y)): CFLAGS_stack_boundary := $(cflags-stack-boundary)
 
-obj-y := stub.o
+obj-y := common-stub.o stub.o
 obj-$(XEN_BUILD_EFI) := $(filter-out %.init.o,$(EFIOBJ-y))
 obj-bin-$(XEN_BUILD_EFI) := $(filter %.init.o,$(EFIOBJ-y))
 extra-$(XEN_BUILD_EFI) += buildid.o relocs-dummy.o
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c b/xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c
index f2365bc041..2cd5c8d4dc 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 #include <efi/eficon.h>
 #include <efi/efidevp.h>
 #include <efi/efiapi.h>
-#include "../../../common/efi/stub.c"
 
 /*
  * Here we are in EFI stub. EFI calls are not supported due to lack
@@ -55,9 +54,3 @@ bool efi_boot_mem_unused(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end)
 }
 
 void efi_update_l4_pgtable(unsigned int l4idx, l4_pgentry_t l4e) { }
-
-int efi_compat_get_info(uint32_t idx, union compat_pf_efi_info *)
-    __attribute__((__alias__("efi_get_info")));
-
-int efi_compat_runtime_call(struct compat_pf_efi_runtime_call *)
-    __attribute__((__alias__("efi_runtime_call")));
diff --git a/xen/common/efi/stub.c b/xen/common/efi/common-stub.c
similarity index 64%
rename from xen/common/efi/stub.c
rename to xen/common/efi/common-stub.c
index 15694632c2..5a91fe28cc 100644
--- a/xen/common/efi/stub.c
+++ b/xen/common/efi/common-stub.c
@@ -30,3 +30,13 @@ int efi_runtime_call(struct xenpf_efi_runtime_call *op)
 {
     return -ENOSYS;
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+
+int efi_compat_get_info(uint32_t idx, union compat_pf_efi_info *)
+    __attribute__((__alias__("efi_get_info")));
+
+int efi_compat_runtime_call(struct compat_pf_efi_runtime_call *)
+    __attribute__((__alias__("efi_runtime_call")));
+
+#endif
diff --git a/xen/common/efi/efi-common.mk b/xen/common/efi/efi-common.mk
index ec2c34f198..53fdb81583 100644
--- a/xen/common/efi/efi-common.mk
+++ b/xen/common/efi/efi-common.mk
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ CFLAGS-y += -iquote $(srcdir)
 # e.g.: It transforms "dir/foo/bar" into successively
 #       "dir foo bar", ".. .. ..", "../../.."
 $(obj)/%.c: $(srctree)/common/efi/%.c FORCE
-	$(Q)test -f $@ || \
-	    ln -nfs $(subst $(space),/,$(patsubst %,..,$(subst /, ,$(obj))))/source/common/efi/$(<F) $@
+	$(Q)ln -nfs $(subst $(space),/,$(patsubst %,..,$(subst /, ,$(obj))))/source/common/efi/$(<F) $@
 
 clean-files += $(patsubst %.o, %.c, $(EFIOBJ-y:.init.o=.o) $(EFIOBJ-))
+clean-files += common-stub.c
 
 .PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.c