diff --git a/arch/m32r/kernel/head.S b/arch/m32r/kernel/head.S
index 90916067b9c17d766c33cb7e8033ced06943602a..0a7194439eb14aa69fbb0863309ced9b60041e54 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/m32r/kernel/head.S
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ __INITDATA
 /*
  * References to members of the boot_cpu_data structure.
  */
-.section .text.head, "ax"
+__HEAD
 	.global	start_kernel
 	.global __bss_start
 	.global _end
diff --git a/arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 9db05df20c0ef0a5bba249282604bbcc2b1763e9..4179adf6c624f0f6c5af62bf82bef34e761a17ed 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ SECTIONS
   _text = .;			/* Text and read-only data */
   .boot : { *(.boot) } = 0
   .text : {
-	*(.text.head)
+	HEAD_TEXT
 	TEXT_TEXT
 	SCHED_TEXT
 	LOCK_TEXT