diff --git a/plat/juno/bl2_plat_setup.c b/plat/juno/bl2_plat_setup.c
index 7e0b9e8..4d162c6 100644
--- a/plat/juno/bl2_plat_setup.c
+++ b/plat/juno/bl2_plat_setup.c
@@ -71,24 +71,18 @@
 __attribute__ ((aligned(PLATFORM_CACHE_LINE_SIZE),
 		section("tzfw_coherent_mem")));
 
-/*******************************************************************************
- * Reference to structure which holds the arguments which need to be passed
- * to BL31
- ******************************************************************************/
-static bl31_args *bl2_to_bl31_args;
+static bl31_args bl2_to_bl31_args
+__attribute__ ((aligned(PLATFORM_CACHE_LINE_SIZE),
+		section("tzfw_coherent_mem")));
 
 meminfo *bl2_plat_sec_mem_layout(void)
 {
 	return &bl2_tzram_layout;
 }
 
-/*******************************************************************************
- * This function returns a pointer to the memory that the platform has kept
- * aside to pass all the information that BL31 could need.
- ******************************************************************************/
 bl31_args *bl2_get_bl31_args_ptr(void)
 {
-	return bl2_to_bl31_args;
+	return &bl2_to_bl31_args;
 }
 
 /*******************************************************************************
@@ -118,16 +112,14 @@
 {
 	/* Initialise the IO layer and register platform IO devices */
 	io_setup();
-	/* Use the Trusted DRAM for passing args to BL31 */
-	bl2_to_bl31_args = (bl31_args *) TZDRAM_BASE;
 
 	/* Populate the extents of memory available for loading BL33 */
-	bl2_to_bl31_args->bl33_meminfo.total_base = DRAM_BASE;
-	bl2_to_bl31_args->bl33_meminfo.total_size = DRAM_SIZE;
-	bl2_to_bl31_args->bl33_meminfo.free_base = DRAM_BASE;
-	bl2_to_bl31_args->bl33_meminfo.free_size = DRAM_SIZE;
-	bl2_to_bl31_args->bl33_meminfo.attr = 0;
-	bl2_to_bl31_args->bl33_meminfo.next = 0;
+	bl2_to_bl31_args.bl33_meminfo.total_base = DRAM_BASE;
+	bl2_to_bl31_args.bl33_meminfo.total_size = DRAM_SIZE;
+	bl2_to_bl31_args.bl33_meminfo.free_base = DRAM_BASE;
+	bl2_to_bl31_args.bl33_meminfo.free_size = DRAM_SIZE;
+	bl2_to_bl31_args.bl33_meminfo.attr = 0;
+	bl2_to_bl31_args.bl33_meminfo.next = 0;
 
 }
 
diff --git a/plat/juno/bl31_plat_setup.c b/plat/juno/bl31_plat_setup.c
index c2c7ff8..fb29076 100644
--- a/plat/juno/bl31_plat_setup.c
+++ b/plat/juno/bl31_plat_setup.c
@@ -61,20 +61,16 @@
 #define BL31_COHERENT_RAM_BASE (unsigned long)(&__COHERENT_RAM_START__)
 #define BL31_COHERENT_RAM_LIMIT (unsigned long)(&__COHERENT_RAM_END__)
 
-/*******************************************************************************
- * Reference to structure which holds the arguments that have been passed to
- * BL31 from BL2.
- ******************************************************************************/
-static bl31_args *bl2_to_bl31_args;
+static bl31_args bl2_to_bl31_args;
 
 meminfo *bl31_plat_sec_mem_layout(void)
 {
-	return &bl2_to_bl31_args->bl31_meminfo;
+	return &bl2_to_bl31_args.bl31_meminfo;
 }
 
 meminfo *bl31_plat_get_bl32_mem_layout(void)
 {
-	return &bl2_to_bl31_args->bl32_meminfo;
+	return &bl2_to_bl31_args.bl32_meminfo;
 }
 
 /*******************************************************************************
@@ -88,8 +84,8 @@
 	el_change_info *next_image_info;
 
 	next_image_info = (type == NON_SECURE) ?
-		&bl2_to_bl31_args->bl33_image_info :
-		&bl2_to_bl31_args->bl32_image_info;
+		&bl2_to_bl31_args.bl33_image_info :
+		&bl2_to_bl31_args.bl32_image_info;
 
 	/* None of the images on this platform can have 0x0 as the entrypoint */
 	if (next_image_info->entrypoint)
@@ -112,8 +108,7 @@
 void bl31_early_platform_setup(bl31_args *from_bl2,
 			       void *data)
 {
-	bl2_to_bl31_args = from_bl2;
-
+	bl2_to_bl31_args = *from_bl2;
 }
 
 /*******************************************************************************
@@ -145,7 +140,7 @@
  ******************************************************************************/
 void bl31_plat_arch_setup()
 {
-	configure_mmu(&bl2_to_bl31_args->bl31_meminfo,
+	configure_mmu(&bl2_to_bl31_args.bl31_meminfo,
 		      BL31_RO_BASE,
 		      BL31_RO_LIMIT,
 		      BL31_COHERENT_RAM_BASE,