diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 4cfb6de48f79..9f0213213da8 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -885,6 +885,9 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
 	  architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
 	  kernels.
 
+config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
+	bool
+
 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
 
 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 68261430fe6e..a7e7a60602fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1510,6 +1510,7 @@ config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
 	bool "AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support"
 	depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_AMD
 	select DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK
+	select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
 	---help---
 	  Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory.
 	  This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory
@@ -1529,10 +1530,6 @@ config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
 	  If set to N, then the encryption of system memory can be
 	  activated with the mem_encrypt=on command line option.
 
-config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
-	def_bool y
-	depends on AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
-
 # Common NUMA Features
 config NUMA
 	bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
index 5378d10f1d31..0029604af8a4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ bool phys_mem_access_encrypted(unsigned long phys_addr, unsigned long size)
 	return arch_memremap_can_ram_remap(phys_addr, size, 0);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
+#ifdef CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
 /* Remap memory with encryption */
 void __init *early_memremap_encrypted(resource_size_t phys_addr,
 				      unsigned long size)
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ void __init *early_memremap_decrypted_wp(resource_size_t phys_addr,
 
 	return early_memremap_prot(phys_addr, size, __PAGE_KERNEL_NOENC_WP);
 }
-#endif	/* CONFIG_ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT */
+#endif	/* CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT */
 
 static pte_t bm_pte[PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(pte_t)] __page_aligned_bss;