diff --git a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4ebd4e65524cd3cf6347a2948dede9163a4807b9..41ebe97fad1097f85a0c5d602db8bb74f474b946 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ SECTIONS
 #endif
 	_startcode_end = .;
 
-	/* bootloader code and data starts behind area of extracted kernel */
-	. = (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START);
+	/* bootloader code and data starts at least behind area of extracted kernel */
+	. = MAX(ABSOLUTE(.), (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START));
 
 	/* align on next page boundary */
 	. = ALIGN(4096);