diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/head.S b/arch/m68k/kernel/head.S
index 05741f23356720aef7c7c2ebcb015720ea8dec03..faa6764f1d13617c0b9580d0aef9c8641a325691 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/head.S
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ func_define	putn,1
 #endif
 .endm
 
-.text
+.section ".text.head","ax"
 ENTRY(_stext)
 /*
  * Version numbers of the bootinfo interface
diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/sun3-head.S b/arch/m68k/kernel/sun3-head.S
index 4b5f050204e860ca7f2991e487d83602517b916f..aad01592dbbcd12304674fdfff0ff8ef1903bbdc 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/sun3-head.S
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/sun3-head.S
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ kernel_pmd_table:              .skip 0x2000
 .globl kernel_pg_dir
 .equ    kernel_pg_dir,kernel_pmd_table
 
-	.section .head
+	.section .text.head
 ENTRY(_stext)
 ENTRY(_start)
 
diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds b/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds
index 40f02b128f22bb3a62ebce9d66349f3f78dc7fdc..c42245775a4db9d520df660424c6c7e690480beb 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SECTIONS
   . = 0x1000;
   _text = .;			/* Text and read-only data */
   .text : {
+	*(.text.head)
 	TEXT_TEXT
 	SCHED_TEXT
 	LOCK_TEXT
diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds b/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds
index f06425b6d20643a9fc32d74bfdc5af6c3487a394..4adffefb5c48c673b5f349a6c0142b4a10a26ada 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SECTIONS
   . = 0xE002000;
   _text = .;			/* Text and read-only data */
   .text : {
-	*(.head)
+	*(.text.head)
 	TEXT_TEXT
 	SCHED_TEXT
 	LOCK_TEXT