diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
index 7ffec6b3b3316e168f6a15564f2fab7a1bd00bac..64ad7696786f1f34f10cc2785393fba93f25e105 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ RESERVE_BRK(pagetables, INIT_MAP_SIZE)
  * any particular GDT layout, because we load our own as soon as we
  * can.
  */
-.section .text.head,"ax",@progbits
+__HEAD
 ENTRY(startup_32)
 	/* test KEEP_SEGMENTS flag to see if the bootloader is asking
 		us to not reload segments */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index fa54f78e2a05c94862c56df144160e31474f481c..26406601031c9a3a3b6ee54cbf112f2599a42633 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ L4_START_KERNEL = pgd_index(__START_KERNEL_map)
 L3_START_KERNEL = pud_index(__START_KERNEL_map)
 
 	.text
-	.section .text.head
+	__HEAD
 	.code64
 	.globl startup_64
 startup_64:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b96ca472fa261539fb66a4ce66d3813fbf8513dd..5c7826dd804b0eb03782ccc0efc9db8a48f90ed1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -65,17 +65,11 @@ SECTIONS
 #endif
 
 	/* Text and read-only data */
-
-	/* bootstrapping code */
-	.text.head : AT(ADDR(.text.head) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
-		_text = .;
-		*(.text.head)
-	} :text = 0x9090
-
-	/* The rest of the text */
 	.text :  AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+		_text = .;
+		/* bootstrapping code */
+		HEAD_TEXT
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-		/* not really needed, already page aligned */
 		. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 		*(.text.page_aligned)
 #endif