From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:22:25 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section
X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~185^2~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce39a6aa8802e718f9b68bf6892612e4fd7f9d2d;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section

The .head.text section is now empty, so it can be dropped from the
linker script.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-46-ardb+git@google.com
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4277efb263588..d7af4a64c211b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -160,11 +160,6 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	} :text = 0xcccccccc
 
-	/* bootstrapping code */
-	.head.text : AT(ADDR(.head.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
-		HEAD_TEXT
-	} :text = 0xcccccccc
-
 	/* End of text section, which should occupy whole number of pages */
 	_etext = .;
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);