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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/head-64.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/head-64.h
index 86eb87382031..d81eac5b509f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/head-64.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/head-64.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include <asm/cache.h>
+#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
/*
* We can't do CPP stringification and concatination directly into the section
* name for some reason, so these macros can do it for us.
@@ -49,8 +50,8 @@
* CLOSE_FIXED_SECTION() or elsewhere, there may be something
* unexpected being added there. Remove the '. = x_len' line, rebuild, and
* check what is pushing the section down.
- * - If the build dies in linking, check arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
- * for instructions.
+ * - If the build dies in linking, check arch/powerpc/tools/head_check.sh
+ * comments.
* - If the kernel crashes or hangs in very early boot, it could be linker
* stubs at the start of the main text.
*/
@@ -63,11 +64,29 @@
. = 0x0; \
start_##sname:
+/*
+ * .linker_stub_catch section is used to catch linker stubs from being
+ * inserted in our .text section, above the start_text label (which breaks
+ * the ABS_ADDR calculation). See kernel/vmlinux.lds.S and tools/head_check.sh
+ * for more details. We would prefer to just keep a cacheline (0x80), but
+ * 0x100 seems to be how the linker aligns branch stub groups.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_LD_HEAD_STUB_CATCH
+#define OPEN_TEXT_SECTION(start) \
+ .section ".linker_stub_catch","ax",@progbits; \
+linker_stub_catch: \
+ . = 0x4; \
+ text_start = (start) + 0x100; \
+ .section ".text","ax",@progbits; \
+ .balign 0x100; \
+start_text:
+#else
#define OPEN_TEXT_SECTION(start) \
text_start = (start); \
.section ".text","ax",@progbits; \
. = 0x0; \
start_text:
+#endif
#define ZERO_FIXED_SECTION(sname, start, end) \
sname##_start = (start); \
@@ -397,4 +416,6 @@ name:
EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(name); \
STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON(realvec + 0x2, name, hdlr); \
+#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
+
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_HEAD_64_H */