diff --git a/arch/xtensa/Kconfig b/arch/xtensa/Kconfig
index 60c141af222b..d29b7365da8d 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/Kconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-config ZONE_DMA
-	def_bool y
-
 config XTENSA
 	def_bool y
 	select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile b/arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile
index dc9e0ba7122c..294846117fc2 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ uImage: $(obj)/uImage
 boot-elf boot-redboot: $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(subdir-y))
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(obj)/$@ $(MAKECMDGOALS)
 
-OBJCOPYFLAGS = --strip-all -R .comment -R .note.gnu.build-id -O binary
+OBJCOPYFLAGS = --strip-all -R .comment -R .notes -O binary
 
 vmlinux.bin: vmlinux FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,objcopy)
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b727b18a68ac..b80a430453b1 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ SECTIONS
   .fixup   : { *(.fixup) }
 
   EXCEPTION_TABLE(16)
+  NOTES
   /* Data section */
 
   _sdata = .;
@@ -296,38 +297,11 @@ SECTIONS
 
   _end = .;
 
-  .xt.lit : { *(.xt.lit) }
-  .xt.prop : { *(.xt.prop) }
+  DWARF_DEBUG
 
-  .debug  0 :  { *(.debug) }
-  .line  0 :  { *(.line) }
-  .debug_srcinfo  0 :  { *(.debug_srcinfo) }
-  .debug_sfnames  0 :  { *(.debug_sfnames) }
-  .debug_aranges  0 :  { *(.debug_aranges) }
-  .debug_pubnames  0 :  { *(.debug_pubnames) }
-  .debug_info  0 :  { *(.debug_info) }
-  .debug_abbrev  0 :  { *(.debug_abbrev) }
-  .debug_line  0 :  { *(.debug_line) }
-  .debug_frame  0 :  { *(.debug_frame) }
-  .debug_str  0 :  { *(.debug_str) }
-  .debug_loc  0 :  { *(.debug_loc) }
-  .debug_macinfo  0 :  { *(.debug_macinfo) }
-  .debug_weaknames  0 :  { *(.debug_weaknames) }
-  .debug_funcnames  0 :  { *(.debug_funcnames) }
-  .debug_typenames  0 :  { *(.debug_typenames) }
-  .debug_varnames  0 :  { *(.debug_varnames) }
-
-  .xt.insn 0 :
-  {
-    *(.xt.insn)
-    *(.gnu.linkonce.x*)
-  }
-
-  .xt.lit 0 :
-  {
-    *(.xt.lit)
-    *(.gnu.linkonce.p*)
-  }
+  .xt.prop 0 : { KEEP(*(.xt.prop .xt.prop.* .gnu.linkonce.prop.*)) }
+  .xt.insn 0 : { KEEP(*(.xt.insn .xt.insn.* .gnu.linkonce.x*)) }
+  .xt.lit  0 : { KEEP(*(.xt.lit  .xt.lit.*  .gnu.linkonce.p*)) }
 
   /* Sections to be discarded */
   DISCARDS
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/mm/init.c b/arch/xtensa/mm/init.c
index 9750a48f491b..30a48bba4a47 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/xtensa/mm/init.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ void __init zones_init(void)
 {
 	/* All pages are DMA-able, so we put them all in the DMA zone. */
 	unsigned long zones_size[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {
-		[ZONE_DMA] = max_low_pfn - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET,
+		[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET,
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 		[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = max_pfn - max_low_pfn,
 #endif