diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
index abe69b80cf7f..48a386094fa3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ loop1:
 	add	x2, x2, #4			// add 4 (line length offset)
 	mov	x4, #0x3ff
 	and	x4, x4, x1, lsr #3		// find maximum number on the way size
-	clz	x5, x4				// find bit position of way size increment
+	clz	w5, w4				// find bit position of way size increment
 	mov	x7, #0x7fff
 	and	x7, x7, x1, lsr #13		// extract max number of the index size
 loop2: