diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 8d22973bde40..f818a47a72d1 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -95,19 +95,40 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
 static void __init setup_initrd(void)
 {
+	phys_addr_t start;
 	unsigned long size;
 
-	if (initrd_start >= initrd_end) {
-		pr_info("initrd not found or empty");
-		goto disable;
-	}
-	if (__pa_symbol(initrd_end) > PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)) {
-		pr_err("initrd extends beyond end of memory");
+	/* Ignore the virtul address computed during device tree parsing */
+	initrd_start = initrd_end = 0;
+
+	if (!phys_initrd_size)
+		return;
+	/*
+	 * Round the memory region to page boundaries as per free_initrd_mem()
+	 * This allows us to detect whether the pages overlapping the initrd
+	 * are in use, but more importantly, reserves the entire set of pages
+	 * as we don't want these pages allocated for other purposes.
+	 */
+	start = round_down(phys_initrd_start, PAGE_SIZE);
+	size = phys_initrd_size + (phys_initrd_start - start);
+	size = round_up(size, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	if (!memblock_is_region_memory(start, size)) {
+		pr_err("INITRD: 0x%08llx+0x%08lx is not a memory region",
+		       (u64)start, size);
 		goto disable;
 	}
 
-	size = initrd_end - initrd_start;
-	memblock_reserve(__pa_symbol(initrd_start), size);
+	if (memblock_is_region_reserved(start, size)) {
+		pr_err("INITRD: 0x%08llx+0x%08lx overlaps in-use memory region\n",
+		       (u64)start, size);
+		goto disable;
+	}
+
+	memblock_reserve(start, size);
+	/* Now convert initrd to virtual addresses */
+	initrd_start = (unsigned long)__va(phys_initrd_start);
+	initrd_end = initrd_start + phys_initrd_size;
 	initrd_below_start_ok = 1;
 
 	pr_info("Initial ramdisk at: 0x%p (%lu bytes)\n",