diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index b7b70fb0cfac..5f4f0300339d 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -813,13 +813,22 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 	/*
 	 * Current riscv boot protocol requires 2MB alignment for
 	 * RV64 and 4MB alignment for RV32 (hugepage size)
+	 *
+	 * Try to alloc from 32bit addressible physical memory so that
+	 * swiotlb can work on the crash kernel.
 	 */
 	crash_base = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, PMD_SIZE,
-					       search_start, search_end);
+					       search_start,
+					       min(search_end, (unsigned long) SZ_4G));
 	if (crash_base == 0) {
-		pr_warn("crashkernel: couldn't allocate %lldKB\n",
-			crash_size >> 10);
-		return;
+		/* Try again without restricting region to 32bit addressible memory */
+		crash_base = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, PMD_SIZE,
+						search_start, search_end);
+		if (crash_base == 0) {
+			pr_warn("crashkernel: couldn't allocate %lldKB\n",
+				crash_size >> 10);
+			return;
+		}
 	}
 
 	pr_info("crashkernel: reserved 0x%016llx - 0x%016llx (%lld MB)\n",