diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index ad5cbea34100..16f4ecd9fc0b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 8c5dd8f43367f4f266dd616f11658005bc2d20ef
+refs/heads/master: 1260866a271abc84274345580f3d613d3bceff87
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4c85b2e2bb65..367e87882041 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ SECTIONS
 	/* Data */
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+		/* Start of data section */
+		_sdata = .;
 		DATA_DATA
 		CONSTRUCTORS