Since it wants to be page aligned, this alignment would force pointless alignment of .text in the intermediate built_in.o file(s), needlessly growing the overall text and binary size. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/kexec_reloc.S +++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/kexec_reloc.S @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ #include #include - .text + .section .text.kexec, "ax", @progbits .align PAGE_SIZE .code64 --- a/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S +++ b/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.text.cold) *(.text.unlikely) *(.fixup) + *(.text.kexec) *(.gnu.warning) _etext = .; /* End of text section */ } :text = 0x9090