2 files changed, 10 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index 694522308cd5..84827da01d45 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static unsigned long vtime_delta(struct task_struct *tsk,
 	return stime;
 }
 
-void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
+void vtime_account_kernel(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	unsigned long stime, stime_scaled, steal_time;
 	struct cpu_accounting_data *acct = get_accounting(tsk);
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
 #endif
 	}
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account_system);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account_kernel);
 
 void vtime_account_idle(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ static void vtime_flush_scaled(struct task_struct *tsk,
 /*
  * Account the whole cputime accumulated in the paca
  * Must be called with interrupts disabled.
- * Assumes that vtime_account_system/idle() has been called
+ * Assumes that vtime_account_kernel/idle() has been called
  * recently (i.e. since the last entry from usermode) so that
  * get_paca()->user_time_scaled is up to date.
  */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 060a1acd7c6d..8834220036a5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 #endif
 
 #define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS *(.bss.prominit)
+#define EMITS_PT_NOTE
+#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN	0
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
@@ -18,22 +20,8 @@
 ENTRY(_stext)
 
 PHDRS {
-	kernel PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWX */
-	notes PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
-	dummy PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
-
-	/* binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an
-	   ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input.  This
-	   happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic
-	   in this linker script.  People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into
-	   this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data
-	   into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address).
-
-	   To work around this, we force some data into both the "dummy"
-	   segment and the kernel segment, so the dummy segment will get a
-	   non-zero load address.  It's not enough to always create the
-	   "notes" segment, since if nothing gets assigned to it, its load
-	   address will be zero.  */
+	text PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWX */
+	note PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
@@ -77,7 +65,7 @@ SECTIONS
 #else /* !CONFIG_PPC64 */
 		HEAD_TEXT
 #endif
-	} :kernel
+	} :text
 
 	__head_end = .;
 
@@ -126,7 +114,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		__got2_end = .;
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC32 */
 
-	} :kernel
+	} :text
 
 	. = ALIGN(ETEXT_ALIGN_SIZE);
 	_etext = .;
@@ -175,17 +163,6 @@ SECTIONS
 		__stop__btb_flush_fixup = .;
 	}
 #endif
-	EXCEPTION_TABLE(0)
-
-	NOTES :kernel :notes
-
-	/* The dummy segment contents for the bug workaround mentioned above
-	   near PHDRS.  */
-	.dummy : AT(ADDR(.dummy) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
-		LONG(0)
-		LONG(0)
-		LONG(0)
-	} :kernel :dummy
 
 /*
  * Init sections discarded at runtime
@@ -200,7 +177,7 @@ SECTIONS
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 		*(.tramp.ftrace.init);
 #endif
-	} :kernel
+	} :text
 
 	/* .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time,
 	 * to deal with references from __bug_table