+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ prepare: prepare0
+ # Leave this as default for preprocessing vmlinux.lds.S, which is now
+ # done in arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/Makefile
+
+-export CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds += -P -C -U$(ARCH)
++export CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds += -P -C -U$(ARCH) $(EXTRA_LDSFLAGS)
+
+ # The asm symlink changes when $(ARCH) changes.
+ # Detect this and ask user to run make mrproper
+--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
++++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+@@ -37,12 +37,6 @@ jiffies = jiffies_64 + 4;
+ #endif
+ SECTIONS
+ {
+- /* Sections to be discarded. */
+- /DISCARD/ : {
+- *(.exitcall.exit)
+- EXIT_DATA
+- }
+-
+ . = KERNELBASE;
+
+ /*
+@@ -290,6 +284,12 @@ SECTIONS
+ __bss_stop = .;
+ }
+
++ /* Sections to be discarded. */
++ /DISCARD/ : {
++ *(.exitcall.exit)
++ EXIT_DATA
++ }
++
+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+ _end = . ;
+ PROVIDE32 (end = .);
+--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
++++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+@@ -76,16 +76,6 @@ SECTIONS
+ #endif
+ }
+
+- /DISCARD/ : { /* Exit code and data */
+- EXIT_TEXT
+- EXIT_DATA
+- *(.exitcall.exit)
+-#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+- *(.fixup)
+- *(__ex_table)
+-#endif
+- }
+-
+ .text : { /* Real text segment */
+ _text = .; /* Text and read-only data */
+ __exception_text_start = .;
+@@ -173,6 +163,17 @@ SECTIONS
+ *(COMMON)
+ _end = .;
+ }
++
++ /DISCARD/ : { /* Exit code and data */
++ EXIT_TEXT
++ EXIT_DATA
++ *(.exitcall.exit)
++#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
++ *(.fixup)
++ *(__ex_table)
++#endif
++ }
++
+ /* Stabs debugging sections. */
+ .stab 0 : { *(.stab) }
+ .stabstr 0 : { *(.stabstr) }