diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
index ef9e1f2c836c..e17be90ab312 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ clean-files += cpustr.h
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	:= $(REALMODE_CFLAGS) -D_SETUP
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	:= $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
 UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index e51879bdc51c..5f7c262bcc99 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
 KBUILD_AFLAGS  := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index d4657d38e884..4f7e6b84be07 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(.Lrelocated)
 	leaq	input_data(%rip), %rdx  /* input_data */
 	movl	$z_input_len, %ecx	/* input_len */
 	movq	%rbp, %r8		/* output target address */
-	movq	$z_output_len, %r9	/* decompressed length, end of relocs */
+	movl	$z_output_len, %r9d	/* decompressed length, end of relocs */
 	call	extract_kernel		/* returns kernel location in %rax */
 	popq	%rsi
 
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ SYM_DATA_END_LABEL(boot_stack, SYM_L_LOCAL, boot_stack_end)
 /*
  * Space for page tables (not in .bss so not zeroed)
  */
-	.section ".pgtable","a",@nobits
+	.section ".pgtable","aw",@nobits
 	.balign 4096
 SYM_DATA_LOCAL(pgtable,		.fill BOOT_PGT_SIZE, 1, 0)
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
index c8181392f70d..726e264410ff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ void __puthex(unsigned long value);
 
 static inline void debug_putstr(const char *s)
 { }
-static inline void debug_puthex(const char *s)
+static inline void debug_puthex(unsigned long value)
 { }
 #define debug_putaddr(x) /* */
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld b/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld
index 3da1c37c6dd5..24c95522f231 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ SECTIONS
 	_end = .;
 
 	/DISCARD/	: {
-		*(.eh_frame)
 		*(.note*)
 	}
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
index ae391f609840..f71a0cce9373 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 	 * Emit CFI data in .debug_frame sections, not .eh_frame sections.
 	 * The latter we currently just discard since we don't do DWARF
 	 * unwinding at runtime.  So only the offline DWARF information is
-	 * useful to anyone.  Note we should not use this directive if
-	 * vmlinux.lds.S gets changed so it doesn't discard .eh_frame.
+	 * useful to anyone.  Note we should not use this directive if we
+	 * ever decide to enable DWARF unwinding at runtime.
 	 */
 	.cfi_sections .debug_frame
 #else
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
index 036c360910c5..a6e8373a5170 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_X86_SECTIONS_H
 #define _ASM_X86_SECTIONS_H
 
+#define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed
+
 #include <asm-generic/sections.h>
 #include <asm/extable.h>
 
@@ -14,4 +16,22 @@ extern char __end_rodata_hpage_align[];
 
 extern char __end_of_kernel_reserve[];
 
+extern unsigned long _brk_start, _brk_end;
+
+static inline bool arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed(unsigned long addr)
+{
+	/*
+	 * If _brk_start has not been cleared, brk allocation is incomplete,
+	 * and we can not make assumptions about its use.
+	 */
+	if (_brk_start)
+		return 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * After brk allocation is complete, space between _brk_end and _end
+	 * is available for allocation.
+	 */
+	return addr >= _brk_end && addr < (unsigned long)&_end;
+}
+
 #endif	/* _ASM_X86_SECTIONS_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index a74262c71484..e6b545047f38 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ RESERVE_BRK(dmi_alloc, 65536);
  * at link time, with RESERVE_BRK*() facility reserving additional
  * chunks.
  */
-static __initdata
 unsigned long _brk_start = (unsigned long)__brk_base;
 unsigned long _brk_end   = (unsigned long)__brk_base;
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index e3296aa028fe..5cab3a29adcb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -313,8 +313,8 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	. = ALIGN(8);
 	/*
-	 * .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with
-	 *  references from .altinstructions and .eh_frame
+	 * .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time, to deal with
+	 *  references from .altinstructions
 	 */
 	.exit.text : AT(ADDR(.exit.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		EXIT_TEXT
@@ -412,9 +412,6 @@ SECTIONS
 	DWARF_DEBUG
 
 	DISCARDS
-	/DISCARD/ : {
-		*(.eh_frame)
-	}
 }
 
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
index 99b6332ba540..b11ec5d8f8ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
@@ -71,5 +71,6 @@ $(obj)/realmode.relocs: $(obj)/realmode.elf FORCE
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	:= $(REALMODE_CFLAGS) -D_SETUP -D_WAKEUP \
 		   -I$(srctree)/arch/x86/boot
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	:= $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
 UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.lds.S b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.lds.S
index 64d135d1ee63..63aa51875ba0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.lds.S
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ SECTIONS
 	/DISCARD/ : {
 		*(.note*)
 		*(.debug*)
-		*(.eh_frame*)
 	}
 
 #include "pasyms.h"
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
index 4d6246c6f651..094eabdecfe6 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_X86)		+= -m$(BITS) -D__KERNEL__ -O2 \
 				   -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fshort-wchar \
 				   -Wno-pointer-sign \
 				   $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member) \
-				   $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
+				   $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu) \
+				   -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
 # arm64 uses the full KBUILD_CFLAGS so it's necessary to explicitly
 # disable the stackleak plugin