diff --git a/arch/arch.mk.arc b/arch/arch.mk.arc
index 5fcffb7f4b..9c04a85a8d 100644
--- a/arch/arch.mk.arc
+++ b/arch/arch.mk.arc
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
+ifeq ($(BR2_arc),y)
+
 # -matomic is always required when the ARC core has the atomic extensions
-ifeq ($(BR2_arc)$(BR2_ARC_ATOMIC_EXT),yy)
+ifeq ($(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)
+ARCH_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_OPTS += -Wl,-z,max-page-size=16384
+endif
+
+endif