linux-kernel - [tip: x86/sev] x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section

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Message-ID: <175698484565.1920.5836741089574743385.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:20:45 -0000
From: "tip-bot2 for Ard Biesheuvel" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@...en8.de>,
 x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: x86/sev] x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section

The following commit has been merged into the x86/sev branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     ce39a6aa8802e718f9b68bf6892612e4fd7f9d2d
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/ce39a6aa8802e718f9b68bf6892612e4fd7f9d2d
Author:        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:22:25 +02:00
Committer:     Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@...en8.de>
CommitterDate: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:06:32 +02:00

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@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@...en8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-46-ardb+git@google.com
---
 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 4277efb..d7af4a6 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);