diff --git a/bl32/sp_min/sp_min.ld.S b/bl32/sp_min/sp_min.ld.S
index e0e23e8..f1d4d0b 100644
--- a/bl32/sp_min/sp_min.ld.S
+++ b/bl32/sp_min/sp_min.ld.S
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2016, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2016-2017, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
@@ -134,9 +134,10 @@
 
     /*
      * The .bss section gets initialised to 0 at runtime.
-     * Its base address must be 16-byte aligned.
+     * Its base address should be 8-byte aligned for better performance of the
+     * zero-initialization code.
      */
-    .bss (NOLOAD) : ALIGN(16) {
+    .bss (NOLOAD) : ALIGN(8) {
         __BSS_START__ = .;
         *(.bss*)
         *(COMMON)