[RFC PATCH v1.9 04/14] x86: move _stext marker before head code

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When core_kernel_text() is used to determine whether an address on a
task's stack trace is a kernel text address, it incorrectly returns
false for early text addresses for the head code between the _text and
_stext markers.

Head code is text code too, so mark it as such.  This seems to match the
intent of other users of the _stext symbol, and it also seems consistent
with what other architectures are already doing.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index d239639..66e6acb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ SECTIONS
 	/* Text and read-only data */
 	.text :  AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		_text = .;
+		_stext = .;
 		/* bootstrapping code */
 		HEAD_TEXT
 		. = ALIGN(8);
-		_stext = .;
 		TEXT_TEXT
 		SCHED_TEXT
 		LOCK_TEXT
-- 
2.4.3

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