diff --git a/package/fio/Config.in b/package/fio/Config.in
index 89f54f99a2..bdfb8ffa9e 100644
--- a/package/fio/Config.in
+++ b/package/fio/Config.in
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_FIO
 	# fio uses fallocate() which becomes fallocate64() while compiling with
 	# largefile support, but fallocate64() is not available on nios2
 	depends on !BR2_nios2
+	# does not build on SuperH, issue reported upstream:
+	# https://github.com/axboe/fio/issues/154
+	depends on !BR2_sh
 	help
 	  fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark
 	  and stress/hardware verification.
@@ -22,5 +25,5 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_FIO
 comment "fio needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library, threads"
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4
-	depends on !BR2_nios2
+	depends on !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_sh
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU