diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index a65937336cdc..f533dd667a83 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -1387,10 +1387,29 @@ void __init misc_mem_init(void)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+void __meminit vmemmap_set_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, void *p, int node,
+			       unsigned long addr, unsigned long next)
+{
+	pmd_set_huge(pmd, virt_to_phys(p), PAGE_KERNEL);
+}
+
+int __meminit vmemmap_check_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, int node,
+				unsigned long addr, unsigned long next)
+{
+	vmemmap_verify((pte_t *)pmdp, node, addr, next);
+	return 1;
+}
+
 int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
 			       struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
 {
-	return vmemmap_populate_basepages(start, end, node, NULL);
+	/*
+	 * Note that SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is only selected for rv64 and that we
+	 * can't use hugepage mappings for 2-level page table because in case of
+	 * memory hotplug, we are not able to update all the page tables with
+	 * the new PMDs.
+	 */
+	return vmemmap_populate_hugepages(start, end, node, NULL);
 }
 #endif