diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/Makefile b/arch/arm/cpu/Makefile
index c3635a1..aba201b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_ARM_MMUINFO) += mmuinfo.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_OFDEVICE) += dtb.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MMU) += mmu.o cache.o mmu-early.o
-pbl-$(CONFIG_MMU) += cache.o mmu-early.o
+pbl-$(CONFIG_MMU) += mmu-early.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_32v4T) += cache-armv4.o
 pbl-$(CONFIG_CPU_32v4T) += cache-armv4.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_32v5) += cache-armv5.o
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 pbl-$(CONFIG_PBL_SINGLE_IMAGE) += start-pbl.o
 pbl-$(CONFIG_PBL_MULTI_IMAGES) += start-images.o uncompress.o
 
-obj-y += common.o
-pbl-y += common.o
+obj-y += common.o cache.o
+pbl-y += common.o cache.o
 
 lwl-y += lowlevel.o
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/start.c b/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
index 1f397ec..f8d343f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
@@ -70,8 +70,10 @@
 		endmem &= ~0x3fff;
 		endmem -= SZ_16K; /* ttb */
 
-		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PBL_IMAGE))
+		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PBL_IMAGE)) {
+			arm_early_mmu_cache_invalidate();
 			mmu_early_enable(membase, memsize, endmem);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c b/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
index b401f8e..b0819c7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
 	uint32_t *ptr;
 	void *pg_start;
 
+	arm_early_mmu_cache_invalidate();
+
 	endmem -= STACK_SIZE; /* stack */
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PBL_RELOCATABLE))
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
index f5f8bf3..2f6eab0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -8,17 +8,7 @@
 
 int arm_set_cache_functions(void);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 void arm_early_mmu_cache_flush(void);
 void arm_early_mmu_cache_invalidate(void);
-#else
-static inline void arm_early_mmu_cache_flush(void)
-{
-}
-
-static inline void arm_early_mmu_cache_invalidate(void)
-{
-}
-#endif
 
 #endif