How about this, revert the commit and don't free INIT_DATA_SECTION. I think the solution is safe enough, but wast a little memory. diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index f3586e3..34d00d9 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -22,13 +22,11 @@ SECTIONS /* Beginning of code and text segment */ . = LOAD_OFFSET; _start = .; - _stext = .; HEAD_TEXT_SECTION . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __init_begin = .; INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE) - INIT_DATA_SECTION(16) . = ALIGN(8); __soc_early_init_table : { __soc_early_init_table_start = .; @@ -55,6 +53,7 @@ SECTIONS . = ALIGN(SECTION_ALIGN); .text : { _text = .; + _stext = .; TEXT_TEXT SCHED_TEXT CPUIDLE_TEXT @@ -67,6 +66,8 @@ SECTIONS _etext = .; } + INIT_DATA_SECTION(16) + /* Start of data section */ _sdata = .; RO_DATA(SECTION_ALIGN) On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:36 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sep 14 2020, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > How should we proceed to get that fixed in time for 5.9? For the older > > branches where it has been backported (so far 5.7 and 5.8), should we > > just get that commit reverted instead? > > Can this please be resolved ASAP? > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 > "And now for something completely different." -- Best Regards Guo Ren ML: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-csky/