diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/cache.h
index 02fd1cece6ef..6349af790c65 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@
 	: "r"(data), "r"(ptr));		\
 })
 
-#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN      L1_CACHE_BYTES
+/* Largest line length for either L1 or L2 is 128 bytes */
+#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN      128
 
 extern void arc_cache_init(void);
 extern char *arc_cache_mumbojumbo(int cpu_id, char *buf, int len);