diff --git a/arch/arch.mk.arc b/arch/arch.mk.arc
index 9c04a85a8d..32b818b0e0 100644
--- a/arch/arch.mk.arc
+++ b/arch/arch.mk.arc
@@ -5,9 +5,12 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_ARC_ATOMIC_EXT),y)
 ARCH_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_OPTS = -matomic
 endif
 
-# By default MAXPAGESIZE for ARC is 8192 so for larger MMU pages
-# it needs to be overridden.
-ifeq ($(BR2_ARC_PAGE_SIZE_16K),y)
+# Explicitly set LD's "max-page-size" instead of relying on some defaults
+ifeq ($(BR2_ARC_PAGE_SIZE_4K),y)
+ARCH_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_OPTS += -Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096
+else ifeq ($(BR2_ARC_PAGE_SIZE_8K),y)
+ARCH_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_OPTS += -Wl,-z,max-page-size=8192
+else ifeq ($(BR2_ARC_PAGE_SIZE_16K),y)
 ARCH_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_OPTS += -Wl,-z,max-page-size=16384
 endif