diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 86ee362a1375..f392358ad4ea 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ config RISCV
 	select EDAC_SUPPORT
 	select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
 	select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if 64BIT
+	select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if 32BIT
 
 config MMU
 	def_bool y
@@ -63,12 +64,32 @@ config ZONE_DMA32
 	bool
 	default y if 64BIT
 
+config VA_BITS
+	int
+	default 32 if 32BIT
+	default 39 if 64BIT
+
+config PA_BITS
+	int
+	default 34 if 32BIT
+	default 56 if 64BIT
+
 config PAGE_OFFSET
 	hex
 	default 0xC0000000 if 32BIT && MAXPHYSMEM_2GB
 	default 0xffffffff80000000 if 64BIT && MAXPHYSMEM_2GB
 	default 0xffffffe000000000 if 64BIT && MAXPHYSMEM_128GB
 
+config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
+	def_bool y
+
+config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
+	def_bool y
+	select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
+
+config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
+	def_bool ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
+
 config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
 	def_bool y
 
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
index 707e00a8430b..3db261c4810f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
@@ -110,8 +110,10 @@ extern unsigned long min_low_pfn;
 #define page_to_bus(page)	(page_to_phys(page))
 #define phys_to_page(paddr)	(pfn_to_page(phys_to_pfn(paddr)))
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM
 #define pfn_valid(pfn) \
 	(((pfn) >= pfn_base) && (((pfn)-pfn_base) < max_mapnr))
+#endif
 
 #define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET		(pfn_base)
 
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index c24a083b3e12..80905b27ee98 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -83,6 +83,19 @@ extern pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[];
 #define __S110	PAGE_SHARED_EXEC
 #define __S111	PAGE_SHARED_EXEC
 
+/*
+ * Roughly size the vmemmap space to be large enough to fit enough
+ * struct pages to map half the virtual address space. Then
+ * position vmemmap directly below the VMALLOC region.
+ */
+#define VMEMMAP_SHIFT \
+	(CONFIG_VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT - 1 + STRUCT_PAGE_MAX_SHIFT)
+#define VMEMMAP_SIZE	BIT(VMEMMAP_SHIFT)
+#define VMEMMAP_END	(VMALLOC_START - 1)
+#define VMEMMAP_START	(VMALLOC_START - VMEMMAP_SIZE)
+
+#define vmemmap		((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START)
+
 /*
  * ZERO_PAGE is a global shared page that is always zero,
  * used for zero-mapped memory areas, etc.
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sparsemem.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sparsemem.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b58ba2d9ed6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sparsemem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+
+#ifndef __ASM_SPARSEMEM_H
+#define __ASM_SPARSEMEM_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
+#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	CONFIG_PA_BITS
+#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS	27
+#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
+
+#endif /* __ASM_SPARSEMEM_H */
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 238fc4157f8d..f0ba71304b6e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -442,6 +442,16 @@ static void __init setup_vm_final(void)
 void __init paging_init(void)
 {
 	setup_vm_final();
+	memblocks_present();
+	sparse_init();
 	setup_zero_page();
 	zone_sizes_init();
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
+int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
+			       struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
+{
+	return vmemmap_populate_basepages(start, end, node);
+}
+#endif