diff --git a/target/board/mainline_arm64/BoardConfig.mk b/target/board/mainline_arm64/BoardConfig.mk
index 7cb2609c4..c53da9ec6 100644
--- a/target/board/mainline_arm64/BoardConfig.mk
+++ b/target/board/mainline_arm64/BoardConfig.mk
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ TARGET_2ND_CPU_VARIANT := generic
 
 include build/make/target/board/BoardConfigMainlineCommon.mk
 
+# TODO(b/143732851): Remove this after replacing /persit with
+# /mnt/vendor/persist
+BOARD_ROOT_EXTRA_SYMLINKS += /mnt/vendor/persist:/persist
+BOARD_SEPOLICY_DIRS += build/make/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy
+
 TARGET_NO_KERNEL := true
 
 # Build generic A/B format system-only OTA.
diff --git a/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/OWNERS b/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/OWNERS
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff2967746
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/OWNERS
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+alanstokes@google.com
+bowgotsai@google.com
+jbires@google.com
+jeffv@google.com
+jgalenson@google.com
+sspatil@google.com
+tomcherry@google.com
+trong@google.com
diff --git a/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/file.te b/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/file.te
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..36baabd3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/file.te
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# TODO(b/143732851): remove this file when the mainline system image
+# no longer need these SoC specific directory
+type persist_file, file_type;
diff --git a/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/file_contexts b/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/file_contexts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4d02edcc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/board/mainline_arm64/sepolicy/file_contexts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# TODO(b/143732851): remove this file when the mainline system image
+# no longer need these SoC specific directory
+
+# /persist
+/persist(/.*)?          u:object_r:persist_file:s0