diff --git a/plat/arm/common/arm_bl31_setup.c b/plat/arm/common/arm_bl31_setup.c
index 939885f..7a3ca71 100644
--- a/plat/arm/common/arm_bl31_setup.c
+++ b/plat/arm/common/arm_bl31_setup.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015-2019, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2020, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
  */
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@
 					MT_CODE | MT_SECURE)
 #endif
 
+#if SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION
+#define MAP_BL31_NOBITS		MAP_REGION_FLAT(			\
+					BL31_NOBITS_BASE,		\
+					BL31_NOBITS_LIMIT 		\
+						- BL31_NOBITS_BASE,	\
+					MT_MEMORY | MT_RW | MT_SECURE)
+
+#endif
 /*******************************************************************************
  * Return a pointer to the 'entry_point_info' structure of the next image for the
  * security state specified. BL33 corresponds to the non-secure image type
@@ -295,6 +303,9 @@
 #if RECLAIM_INIT_CODE
 		MAP_BL_INIT_CODE,
 #endif
+#if SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION
+		MAP_BL31_NOBITS,
+#endif
 		ARM_MAP_BL_RO,
 #if USE_ROMLIB
 		ARM_MAP_ROMLIB_CODE,
diff --git a/plat/arm/common/arm_common.mk b/plat/arm/common/arm_common.mk
index 9d4f05e..ab33e1d 100644
--- a/plat/arm/common/arm_common.mk
+++ b/plat/arm/common/arm_common.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2015-2019, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2015-2020, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 #
@@ -125,6 +125,23 @@
 # mapping the former as executable and the latter as execute-never.
 SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA	:=	1
 
+# On ARM platforms, disable SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION by default. Both PROGBITS
+# and NOBITS sections of BL31 image are adjacent to each other and loaded
+# into Trusted SRAM.
+SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION		:=	0
+
+# In order to support SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION for Arm platforms, we need to load
+# BL31 PROGBITS into secure DRAM space and BL31 NOBITS into SRAM. Hence mandate
+# the build to require that ARM_BL31_IN_DRAM is enabled as well.
+ifeq ($(SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION),1)
+    ifneq ($(ARM_BL31_IN_DRAM),1)
+         $(error For SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION, ARM_BL31_IN_DRAM must be enabled)
+    endif
+    ifneq ($(RECLAIM_INIT_CODE),0)
+          $(error For SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION, RECLAIM_INIT_CODE cannot be supported)
+    endif
+endif
+
 # Disable ARM Cryptocell by default
 ARM_CRYPTOCELL_INTEG		:=	0
 $(eval $(call assert_boolean,ARM_CRYPTOCELL_INTEG))