diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 73e8b5e5bb65..b16304fdf448 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ extern void *dtb_early_va;
 extern uintptr_t dtb_early_pa;
 void setup_bootmem(void);
 void paging_init(void);
+void misc_mem_init(void);
 
 #define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS  0
 
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
index cc85858f7fe8..57e1ab036edf 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	else
 		pr_err("No DTB found in kernel mappings\n");
 #endif
+	misc_mem_init();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
 	swiotlb_init(1);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 56314e82f051..b6ab6a18dc1a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -669,8 +669,12 @@ static void __init resource_init(void)
 void __init paging_init(void)
 {
 	setup_vm_final();
-	sparse_init();
 	setup_zero_page();
+}
+
+void __init misc_mem_init(void)
+{
+	sparse_init();
 	zone_sizes_init();
 	resource_init();
 }