diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index cc7e2d8..f8037ba 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -496,6 +496,13 @@
 		 */
 		bank_start = min(bank_start,
 				 ALIGN(prev_bank_end, PAGES_PER_SECTION));
+#else
+		/*
+		 * Align down here since the VM subsystem insists that the
+		 * memmap entries are valid from the bank start aligned to
+		 * MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES.
+		 */
+		bank_start = round_down(bank_start, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
 #endif
 		/*
 		 * If we had a previous bank, and there is a space