+--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
++++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ SECTIONS
+ INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
+ INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
+
++ . = ALIGN(4);
++ .mips.machines.init : AT(ADDR(.mips.machines.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
++ __mips_machines_start = .;
++ *(.mips.machines.init)
++ __mips_machines_end = .;
++ }
++
+ /* .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time, to deal with
+ * references from .rodata
+ */