linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH PoC 11/11] x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section

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Message-ID: <20250423110948.1103030-24-ardb+git@google.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:10:00 +0200
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@...gle.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: x86@...nel.org, mingo@...nel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH PoC 11/11] x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>

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

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 9340c74b680d..9c50546b11a1 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);
-- 
2.49.0.805.g082f7c87e0-goog