diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
index 37fc4f6..85af34d 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
@@ -72,27 +72,54 @@ The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows:
 
   u32 code0;			/* Executable code */
   u32 code1;			/* Executable code */
-  u64 text_offset;		/* Image load offset */
-  u64 res0	= 0;		/* reserved */
-  u64 res1	= 0;		/* reserved */
+  u64 text_offset;		/* Image load offset, little endian */
+  u64 image_size;		/* Effective Image size, little endian */
+  u64 flags;			/* kernel flags, little endian */
   u64 res2	= 0;		/* reserved */
   u64 res3	= 0;		/* reserved */
   u64 res4	= 0;		/* reserved */
   u32 magic	= 0x644d5241;	/* Magic number, little endian, "ARM\x64" */
-  u32 res5 = 0;      		/* reserved */
+  u32 res5;      		/* reserved (used for PE COFF offset) */
 
 
 Header notes:
 
+- As of v3.17, all fields are little endian unless stated otherwise.
+
 - code0/code1 are responsible for branching to stext.
+
 - when booting through EFI, code0/code1 are initially skipped.
   res5 is an offset to the PE header and the PE header has the EFI
-  entry point (efi_stub_entry). When the stub has done its work, it
+  entry point (efi_stub_entry).  When the stub has done its work, it
   jumps to code0 to resume the normal boot process.
 
-The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000)
-from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the
-system RAM must be aligned to 2MB.
+- Prior to v3.17, the endianness of text_offset was not specified.  In
+  these cases image_size is zero and text_offset is 0x80000 in the
+  endianness of the kernel.  Where image_size is non-zero image_size is
+  little-endian and must be respected.  Where image_size is zero,
+  text_offset can be assumed to be 0x80000.
+
+- The flags field (introduced in v3.17) is a little-endian 64-bit field
+  composed as follows:
+  Bit 0: 	Kernel endianness.  1 if BE, 0 if LE.
+  Bits 1-63:	Reserved.
+
+- When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much
+  memory as possible free for use by the kernel immediately after the
+  end of the kernel image. The amount of space required will vary
+  depending on selected features, and is effectively unbound.
+
+The Image must be placed text_offset bytes from a 2MB aligned base
+address near the start of usable system RAM and called there. Memory
+below that base address is currently unusable by Linux, and therefore it
+is strongly recommended that this location is the start of system RAM.
+At least image_size bytes from the start of the image must be free for
+use by the kernel.
+
+Any memory described to the kernel (even that below the 2MB aligned base
+address) which is not marked as reserved from the kernel e.g. with a
+memreserve region in the device tree) will be considered as available to
+the kernel.
 
 Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8fae075
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+ * Linker script macros to generate Image header fields.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 ARM Ltd.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#ifndef __ASM_IMAGE_H
+#define __ASM_IMAGE_H
+
+#ifndef LINKER_SCRIPT
+#error This file should only be included in vmlinux.lds.S
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * There aren't any ELF relocations we can use to endian-swap values known only
+ * at link time (e.g. the subtraction of two symbol addresses), so we must get
+ * the linker to endian-swap certain values before emitting them.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+#define DATA_LE64(data)					\
+	((((data) & 0x00000000000000ff) << 56) |	\
+	 (((data) & 0x000000000000ff00) << 40) |	\
+	 (((data) & 0x0000000000ff0000) << 24) |	\
+	 (((data) & 0x00000000ff000000) << 8)  |	\
+	 (((data) & 0x000000ff00000000) >> 8)  |	\
+	 (((data) & 0x0000ff0000000000) >> 24) |	\
+	 (((data) & 0x00ff000000000000) >> 40) |	\
+	 (((data) & 0xff00000000000000) >> 56))
+#else
+#define DATA_LE64(data) ((data) & 0xffffffffffffffff)
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE	1
+#else
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE	0
+#endif
+
+#define __HEAD_FLAGS	(__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0)
+
+/*
+ * These will output as part of the Image header, which should be little-endian
+ * regardless of the endianness of the kernel. While constant values could be
+ * endian swapped in head.S, all are done here for consistency.
+ */
+#define HEAD_SYMBOLS						\
+	_kernel_size_le		= DATA_LE64(_end - _text);	\
+	_kernel_offset_le	= DATA_LE64(TEXT_OFFSET);	\
+	_kernel_flags_le	= DATA_LE64(__HEAD_FLAGS);
+
+#endif /* __ASM_IMAGE_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index e048f2b..7b59c3d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ efi_head:
 	b	stext				// branch to kernel start, magic
 	.long	0				// reserved
 #endif
-	.quad	TEXT_OFFSET			// Image load offset from start of RAM
-	.quad	0				// reserved
-	.quad	0				// reserved
+	.quad	_kernel_offset_le		// Image load offset from start of RAM, little-endian
+	.quad	_kernel_size_le			// Effective size of kernel image, little-endian
+	.quad	_kernel_flags_le		// Informative flags, little-endian
 	.quad	0				// reserved
 	.quad	0				// reserved
 	.quad	0				// reserved
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index c6648d3..9cbf77a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
+#include <asm/image.h>
 #include <asm/thread_info.h>
 #include <asm/memory.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
@@ -114,6 +115,8 @@ SECTIONS
 	_end = .;
 
 	STABS_DEBUG
+
+	HEAD_SYMBOLS
 }
 
 /*
