diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c b/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c
index 1c9c13e9d074..efb127022d42 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c
@@ -227,7 +227,13 @@ static void ct_ca9x4_init(void)
 	int i;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CACHE_L2X0
-	l2x0_init(MMIO_P2V(CT_CA9X4_L2CC), 0x00400000, 0xfe0fffff);
+	void __iomem *l2x0_base = MMIO_P2V(CT_CA9X4_L2CC);
+
+	/* set RAM latencies to 1 cycle for this core tile. */
+	writel(0, l2x0_base + L2X0_TAG_LATENCY_CTRL);
+	writel(0, l2x0_base + L2X0_DATA_LATENCY_CTRL);
+
+	l2x0_init(l2x0_base, 0x00400000, 0xfe0fffff);
 #endif
 
 	clkdev_add_table(lookups, ARRAY_SIZE(lookups));