arm64: get rid of TEXT_OFFSET

index 55bc8546d9c7..6d068646da35 100644
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 # Copyright (C) 1995-2001 by Russell King
 
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux	:=--no-undefined -X
-CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds = -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE), y)
 # Pass --no-apply-dynamic-relocs to restore pre-binutils-2.27 behaviour

@@ -127,9 +126,6 @@ endif
 # Default value
 head-y		:= arch/arm64/kernel/head.o
 
-# The byte offset of the kernel image in RAM from the start of RAM.
-TEXT_OFFSET := 0x0
-
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS), y)
 KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT := 4
 else

@@ -140,8 +136,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DKASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT=$(KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT)
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DKASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT=$(KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += -DKASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT=$(KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT)
 
-export	TEXT_OFFSET
-
 core-y		+= arch/arm64/
 libs-y		:= arch/arm64/lib/ $(libs-y)
 libs-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += $(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a

index a561cbb91d4d..4197ef2fb22e 100644
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 # Makefile for the linux kernel.
 #
 
-CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds	:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
-AFLAGS_head.o		:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
 CFLAGS_armv8_deprecated.o := -I$(src)
 
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)

index 037421c66b14..d8d9caf02834 100644
@@ -36,14 +36,10 @@
 
 #include "efi-header.S"
 
-#define __PHYS_OFFSET	(KERNEL_START - TEXT_OFFSET)
+#define __PHYS_OFFSET	KERNEL_START
 
-#if (TEXT_OFFSET & 0xfff) != 0
-#error TEXT_OFFSET must be at least 4KB aligned
-#elif (PAGE_OFFSET & 0x1fffff) != 0
+#if (PAGE_OFFSET & 0x1fffff) != 0
 #error PAGE_OFFSET must be at least 2MB aligned
-#elif TEXT_OFFSET > 0x1fffff
-#error TEXT_OFFSET must be less than 2MB
 #endif
 
 /*

@@ -55,7 +51,7 @@
  *   x0 = physical address to the FDT blob.
  *
  * This code is mostly position independent so you call this at
- * __pa(PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET).
+ * __pa(PAGE_OFFSET).
  *
  * Note that the callee-saved registers are used for storing variables
  * that are useful before the MMU is enabled. The allocations are described

@@ -77,7 +73,7 @@ _head:
 	b	primary_entry			// branch to kernel start, magic
 	.long	0				// reserved
 #endif
-	le64sym	_kernel_offset_le		// Image load offset from start of RAM, little-endian
+	.quad	0				// Image load offset from start of RAM, little-endian
 	le64sym	_kernel_size_le			// Effective size of kernel image, little-endian
 	le64sym	_kernel_flags_le		// Informative flags, little-endian
 	.quad	0				// reserved

@@ -382,7 +378,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__create_page_tables)
 	 * Map the kernel image (starting with PHYS_OFFSET).
 	 */
 	adrp	x0, init_pg_dir
-	mov_q	x5, KIMAGE_VADDR + TEXT_OFFSET	// compile time __va(_text)
+	mov_q	x5, KIMAGE_VADDR		// compile time __va(_text)
 	add	x5, x5, x23			// add KASLR displacement
 	mov	x4, PTRS_PER_PGD
 	adrp	x6, _end			// runtime __pa(_end)

@@ -474,7 +470,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(__primary_switched)
 
 	.pushsection ".rodata", "a"
 SYM_DATA_START(kimage_vaddr)
-	.quad		_text - TEXT_OFFSET
+	.quad		_text
 SYM_DATA_END(kimage_vaddr)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kimage_vaddr)
 	.popsection

index ec8e894684a7..f49bd7f14b19 100644
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.eh_frame)
 	}
 
-	. = KIMAGE_VADDR + TEXT_OFFSET;
+	. = KIMAGE_VADDR;
 
 	.head.text : {
 		_text = .;

@@ -266,4 +266,4 @@ ASSERT((__entry_tramp_text_end - __entry_tramp_text_start) == PAGE_SIZE,
 /*
  * If padding is applied before .head.text, virt<->phys conversions will fail.
  */
-ASSERT(_text == (KIMAGE_VADDR + TEXT_OFFSET), "HEAD is misaligned")
+ASSERT(_text == KIMAGE_VADDR, "HEAD is misaligned")

index 296b18fbd7a2..5a80cf6bd606 100644
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_ARM)		+= arm32-stub.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_ARM64)		+= arm64-stub.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_X86)		+= x86-stub.o
 CFLAGS_arm32-stub.o		:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
-CFLAGS_arm64-stub.o		:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
 
 #
 # For x86, bootloaders like systemd-boot or grub-efi do not zero-initialize the