diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
index bcc5e300413f4..bfd662e49a25e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_PGTABLE_2LEVEL_H
 #define _ASM_PGTABLE_2LEVEL_H
 
+#define __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
+
 /*
  * Hardware-wise, we have a two level page table structure, where the first
  * level has 4096 entries, and the second level has 256 entries.  Each entry