diff --git a/arch/arc/Kconfig b/arch/arc/Kconfig
index ec4791e..a876743 100644
--- a/arch/arc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arc/Kconfig
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
 config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
 	def_bool y
 
+config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
+	def_bool y
+
 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y
 
@@ -347,6 +350,15 @@
 
 endchoice
 
+config NODES_SHIFT
+	int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)"
+	default "1" if !DISCONTIGMEM
+	default "2" if DISCONTIGMEM
+	depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
+	---help---
+	  Accessing memory beyond 1GB (with or w/o PAE) requires 2 memory
+	  zones.
+
 if ISA_ARCOMPACT
 
 config ARC_COMPACT_IRQ_LEVELS
@@ -455,6 +467,7 @@
 
 config HIGHMEM
 	bool "High Memory Support"
+	select DISCONTIGMEM
 	help
 	  With ARC 2G:2G address split, only upper 2G is directly addressable by
 	  kernel. Enable this to potentially allow access to rest of 2G and PAE
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/mmzone.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/mmzone.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e97136
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/mmzone.h
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Synopsys, Inc. (www.synopsys.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_ARC_MMZONE_H
+#define _ASM_ARC_MMZONE_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
+
+extern struct pglist_data node_data[];
+#define NODE_DATA(nid) (&node_data[nid])
+
+static inline int pfn_to_nid(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	int is_end_low = 1;
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARC_HAS_PAE40))
+		is_end_low = pfn <= virt_to_pfn(0xFFFFFFFFUL);
+
+	/*
+	 * node 0: lowmem:             0x8000_0000   to 0xFFFF_FFFF
+	 * node 1: HIGHMEM w/o  PAE40: 0x0           to 0x7FFF_FFFF
+	 *         HIGHMEM with PAE40: 0x1_0000_0000 to ...
+	 */
+	if (pfn >= ARCH_PFN_OFFSET && is_end_low)
+		return 0;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+static inline int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	int nid = pfn_to_nid(pfn);
+
+	return (pfn <= node_end_pfn(nid));
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM  */
+
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h
index 533e5a0..0d53854 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@
 
 #define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET		virt_to_pfn(CONFIG_LINUX_LINK_BASE)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM
 #define pfn_valid(pfn)		(((pfn) - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET) < max_mapnr)
+#endif
 
 /*
  * __pa, __va, virt_to_page (ALERT: deprecated, don't use them)
@@ -95,9 +97,7 @@
 #define __pa(vaddr)  ((unsigned long)(vaddr))
 #define __va(paddr)  ((void *)((unsigned long)(paddr)))
 
-#define virt_to_page(kaddr)	\
-	(mem_map + virt_to_pfn((kaddr) - CONFIG_LINUX_LINK_BASE))
-
+#define virt_to_page(kaddr)	pfn_to_page(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))
 #define virt_addr_valid(kaddr)  pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))
 
 /* Default Permissions for stack/heaps pages (Non Executable) */
diff --git a/arch/arc/mm/init.c b/arch/arc/mm/init.c
index 5487d0b..8be9303 100644
--- a/arch/arc/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arc/mm/init.c
@@ -30,11 +30,16 @@
 static unsigned long low_mem_sz;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-static unsigned long min_high_pfn;
+static unsigned long min_high_pfn, max_high_pfn;
 static u64 high_mem_start;
 static u64 high_mem_sz;
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
+struct pglist_data node_data[MAX_NUMNODES] __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data);
+#endif
+
 /* User can over-ride above with "mem=nnn[KkMm]" in cmdline */
 static int __init setup_mem_sz(char *str)
 {
@@ -109,13 +114,11 @@
 	/* Last usable page of low mem */
 	max_low_pfn = max_pfn = PFN_DOWN(low_mem_start + low_mem_sz);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-	min_high_pfn = PFN_DOWN(high_mem_start);
-	max_pfn = PFN_DOWN(high_mem_start + high_mem_sz);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM
+	/* pfn_valid() uses this */
+	max_mapnr = max_low_pfn - min_low_pfn;
 #endif
 
-	max_mapnr = max_pfn - min_low_pfn;
-
 	/*------------- bootmem allocator setup -----------------------*/
 
 	/*
@@ -129,7 +132,7 @@
 	 * the crash
 	 */
 
-	memblock_add(low_mem_start, low_mem_sz);
+	memblock_add_node(low_mem_start, low_mem_sz, 0);
 	memblock_reserve(low_mem_start, __pa(_end) - low_mem_start);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
@@ -149,13 +152,6 @@
 	zones_size[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn - min_low_pfn;
 	zones_holes[ZONE_NORMAL] = 0;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-	zones_size[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = max_pfn - max_low_pfn;
-
-	/* This handles the peripheral address space hole */
-	zones_holes[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = min_high_pfn - max_low_pfn;
-#endif
-
 	/*
 	 * We can't use the helper free_area_init(zones[]) because it uses
 	 * PAGE_OFFSET to compute the @min_low_pfn which would be wrong
@@ -168,6 +164,34 @@
 			    zones_holes);	/* holes */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+	/*
+	 * Populate a new node with highmem
+	 *
+	 * On ARC (w/o PAE) HIGHMEM addresses are actually smaller (0 based)
+	 * than addresses in normal ala low memory (0x8000_0000 based).
+	 * Even with PAE, the huge peripheral space hole would waste a lot of
+	 * mem with single mem_map[]. This warrants a mem_map per region design.
+	 * Thus HIGHMEM on ARC is imlemented with DISCONTIGMEM.
+	 *
+	 * DISCONTIGMEM in turns requires multiple nodes. node 0 above is
+	 * populated with normal memory zone while node 1 only has highmem
+	 */
+	node_set_online(1);
+
+	min_high_pfn = PFN_DOWN(high_mem_start);
+	max_high_pfn = PFN_DOWN(high_mem_start + high_mem_sz);
+
+	zones_size[ZONE_NORMAL] = 0;
+	zones_holes[ZONE_NORMAL] = 0;
+
+	zones_size[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = max_high_pfn - min_high_pfn;
+	zones_holes[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = 0;
+
+	free_area_init_node(1,			/* node-id */
+			    zones_size,		/* num pages per zone */
+			    min_high_pfn,	/* first pfn of node */
+			    zones_holes);	/* holes */
+
 	high_memory = (void *)(min_high_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
 	kmap_init();
 #endif
@@ -185,7 +209,7 @@
 	unsigned long tmp;
 
 	reset_all_zones_managed_pages();
-	for (tmp = min_high_pfn; tmp < max_pfn; tmp++)
+	for (tmp = min_high_pfn; tmp < max_high_pfn; tmp++)
 		free_highmem_page(pfn_to_page(tmp));
 #endif