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diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 25ed3337ce35..79f0317d84ac 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ SECTIONS
/* writeable */
.data : { /* Data */
. = . + DATAOFFSET; /* for CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL */
+ /*
+ * This ALIGN is needed as a workaround for a bug a gcc bug upto 4.1 which
+ * limits the maximum alignment to at most 32kB and results in the following
+ * warning:
+ *
+ * CC arch/mips/kernel/init_task.o
+ * arch/mips/kernel/init_task.c:30: warning: alignment of ‘init_thread_union’
+ * is greater than maximum object file alignment. Using 32768
+ */
+ . = ALIGN(_PAGE_SIZE);
*(.data.init_task)
*(.data)