diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/head.S b/arch/arc/kernel/head.S
index 17fd1ed700ccab..9152782444b557 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/head.S
@@ -67,7 +67,22 @@
 	sr	r5, [ARC_REG_LPB_CTRL]
 1:
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARC_LPB_DISABLE */
-#endif
+
+	/* On HSDK, CCMs need to remapped super early */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARC_SOC_HSDK
+	mov	r6, 0x60000000
+	lr	r5, [ARC_REG_ICCM_BUILD]
+	breq	r5, 0, 1f
+	sr	r6, [ARC_REG_AUX_ICCM]
+1:
+	lr	r5, [ARC_REG_DCCM_BUILD]
+	breq	r5, 0, 2f
+	sr	r6, [ARC_REG_AUX_DCCM]
+2:
+#endif	/* CONFIG_ARC_SOC_HSDK */
+
+#endif	/* CONFIG_ISA_ARCV2 */
+
 	; Config DSP_CTRL properly, so kernel may use integer multiply,
 	; multiply-accumulate, and divide operations
 	DSP_EARLY_INIT
diff --git a/arch/arc/plat-hsdk/platform.c b/arch/arc/plat-hsdk/platform.c
index 0b63fc095b998a..b3ea1fa11f870e 100644
--- a/arch/arc/plat-hsdk/platform.c
+++ b/arch/arc/plat-hsdk/platform.c
@@ -17,22 +17,6 @@ int arc_hsdk_axi_dmac_coherent __section(".data") = 0;
 
 #define ARC_CCM_UNUSED_ADDR	0x60000000
 
-static void __init hsdk_init_per_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
-{
-	/*
-	 * By default ICCM is mapped to 0x7z while this area is used for
-	 * kernel virtual mappings, so move it to currently unused area.
-	 */
-	if (cpuinfo_arc700[cpu].iccm.sz)
-		write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_AUX_ICCM, ARC_CCM_UNUSED_ADDR);
-
-	/*
-	 * By default DCCM is mapped to 0x8z while this area is used by kernel,
-	 * so move it to currently unused area.
-	 */
-	if (cpuinfo_arc700[cpu].dccm.sz)
-		write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_AUX_DCCM, ARC_CCM_UNUSED_ADDR);
-}
 
 #define ARC_PERIPHERAL_BASE	0xf0000000
 #define CREG_BASE		(ARC_PERIPHERAL_BASE + 0x1000)
@@ -339,5 +323,4 @@ static const char *hsdk_compat[] __initconst = {
 MACHINE_START(SIMULATION, "hsdk")
 	.dt_compat	= hsdk_compat,
 	.init_early     = hsdk_init_early,
-	.init_per_cpu	= hsdk_init_per_cpu,
 MACHINE_END