diff --git a/scripts/checkstack.pl b/scripts/checkstack.pl
index 6631586271551..b458e2acb4acf 100755
--- a/scripts/checkstack.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkstack.pl
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@
 		#     pair for larger users. -- PFM.
 		#a00048e0:       d4fc40f0        addi.l  r15,-240,r15
 		$re = qr/.*addi\.l.*r15,-(([0-9]{2}|[3-9])[0-9]{2}),r15/o;
+	} elsif ($arch =~ /^blackfin$/) {
+		#   0:   00 e8 38 01     LINK 0x4e0;
+		$re = qr/.*[[:space:]]LINK[[:space:]]*(0x$x{1,8})/o;
 	} else {
 		print("wrong or unknown architecture\n");
 		exit