diff --git a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index bfd7872739a3..2ac3a643f2eb 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.rodata.compressed)
 	}
 
-	/* bootloader code and data starts behind area of extracted kernel */
-	. = (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START);
+	/* bootloader code and data starts at least behind area of extracted kernel */
+	. = MAX(ABSOLUTE(.), (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START));
 
 	/* align on next page boundary */
 	. = ALIGN(4096);