diff --git a/hypervisor/arch/x86/mmu.c b/hypervisor/arch/x86/mmu.c
index dd7b8f53e..c5248d31c 100644
--- a/hypervisor/arch/x86/mmu.c
+++ b/hypervisor/arch/x86/mmu.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ void init_paging(void)
 	const struct abi_mmap *p_mmap = abi->mmap_entry;
 
 	pr_dbg("HV MMU Initialization");
-	hv_ram_size = (uint64_t)&ld_ram_size;
+	hv_ram_size = (uint64_t)(&_ld_ram_end - &_ld_ram_start);
 
 	init_sanitized_page((uint64_t *)sanitized_page, hva2hpa_early(sanitized_page));
 
diff --git a/hypervisor/bsp/ld/link_ram.ld.in b/hypervisor/bsp/ld/link_ram.ld.in
index a1bb65c56..7f27d1b87 100644
--- a/hypervisor/bsp/ld/link_ram.ld.in
+++ b/hypervisor/bsp/ld/link_ram.ld.in
@@ -100,5 +100,4 @@ SECTIONS
 
    . = ALIGN(0x200000) ;
     _ld_ram_end = . ;
-    ld_ram_size = _ld_ram_end - _ld_ram_start ;
 }
diff --git a/hypervisor/include/arch/x86/asm/boot/ld_sym.h b/hypervisor/include/arch/x86/asm/boot/ld_sym.h
index 8eb8e6ac1..6c2e3327b 100644
--- a/hypervisor/include/arch/x86/asm/boot/ld_sym.h
+++ b/hypervisor/include/arch/x86/asm/boot/ld_sym.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ extern uint8_t		ld_entry_end;
 extern const uint8_t	ld_trampoline_load;
 extern uint8_t		ld_trampoline_start;
 extern uint8_t		ld_trampoline_end;
-extern uint8_t		ld_ram_size;
+extern uint8_t		_ld_ram_start;
+extern uint8_t		_ld_ram_end;
 
 #endif /* LD_SYM_H */