diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index d317a843f7ea..f1b86eb30340 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ SECTIONS
 	{
 		_text = .;
 		HEAD_TEXT
+	        ALIGN_FUNCTION();
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC64
+	        /* Match text section symbols in head_64.S first */
+	        *head_64.o(.text)
+#endif
 		TEXT_TEXT
 		SCHED_TEXT
 		LOCK_TEXT
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index eeadbaeccf88..fd901951549c 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -553,19 +553,24 @@
  * .text section. Map to function alignment to avoid address changes
  * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map
  *
- * TEXT_MAIN here will match .text.fixup and .text.unlikely if dead
- * code elimination is enabled, so these sections should be converted
- * to use ".." first.
+ * TEXT_MAIN here will match symbols with a fixed pattern (for example,
+ * .text.hot or .text.unlikely) if dead code elimination or
+ * function-section is enabled. Match these symbols first before
+ * TEXT_MAIN to ensure they are grouped together.
+ *
+ * Also placing .text.hot section at the beginning of a page, this
+ * would help the TLB performance.
  */
 #define TEXT_TEXT							\
 		ALIGN_FUNCTION();					\
+		*(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*)				\
+		*(.text.unknown .text.unknown.*)			\
+		*(.text.unlikely .text.unlikely.*)			\
+		. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);					\
 		*(.text.hot .text.hot.*)				\
 		*(TEXT_MAIN .text.fixup)				\
-		*(.text.unlikely .text.unlikely.*)			\
-		*(.text.unknown .text.unknown.*)			\
 		NOINSTR_TEXT						\
-		*(.ref.text)						\
-		*(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*)
+		*(.ref.text)
 
 
 /* sched.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same