ALTERNATIVE mechanism can't work on XIP, and this is also reflected by below Kconfig dependency: RISCV_ALTERNATIVE ... depends on !XIP_KERNEL ... So there's no .alternative section at all for XIP case, remove it. Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S index eab9edc3b631..50767647fbc6 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S @@ -98,12 +98,6 @@ SECTIONS __soc_builtin_dtb_table_end = .; } - . = ALIGN(8); - .alternative : { - __alt_start = .; - *(.alternative) - __alt_end = .; - } __init_end = .; . = ALIGN(16); -- 2.40.1