diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 7750829b416a..4c6ba7b30a68 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ config SIBYTE_SWARM
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_HIGHMEM
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_KGDB
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+	select ZONE_DMA32 if 64BIT
 
 config SIBYTE_LITTLESUR
 	bool "Sibyte BCM91250C2-LittleSur"
@@ -565,6 +566,7 @@ config SIBYTE_BIGSUR
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_HIGHMEM
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+	select ZONE_DMA32 if 64BIT
 
 config SNI_RM
 	bool "SNI RM200/300/400"
@@ -1664,6 +1666,9 @@ config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
 	  or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
 	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more.
 
+config ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
+	def_bool y
+
 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 	bool
 	select SPARSEMEM_STATIC
@@ -1969,6 +1974,9 @@ config I8253
 config PCSPEAKER
 	bool
 
+config ZONE_DMA32
+	bool
+
 source "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
index a06a27d6cfcd..7f6ddcb5d485 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static void __init bootmem_init(void)
 
 static void __init bootmem_init(void)
 {
-	unsigned long reserved_end;
+	unsigned long init_begin, reserved_end;
 	unsigned long mapstart = ~0UL;
 	unsigned long bootmap_size;
 	int i;
@@ -342,6 +342,35 @@ static void __init bootmem_init(void)
 	 */
 	bootmap_size = init_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(0), mapstart,
 					 min_low_pfn, max_low_pfn);
+
+
+	init_begin = PFN_UP(__pa_symbol(&__init_begin));
+	for (i = 0; i < boot_mem_map.nr_map; i++) {
+		unsigned long start, end;
+
+		start = PFN_UP(boot_mem_map.map[i].addr);
+		end = PFN_DOWN(boot_mem_map.map[i].addr
+				+ boot_mem_map.map[i].size);
+
+		if (start <= init_begin)
+			start = init_begin;
+		if (start >= end)
+			continue;
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+		if (end > max_low_pfn)
+			end = max_low_pfn;
+
+		/*
+		 * ... finally, is the area going away?
+		 */
+		if (end <= start)
+			continue;
+#endif
+
+		add_active_range(0, start, end);
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Register fully available low RAM pages with the bootmem allocator.
 	 */
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/dma-default.c b/arch/mips/mm/dma-default.c
index 33519ce49540..ae76795685cc 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/dma-default.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/dma-default.c
@@ -40,16 +40,38 @@ static inline int cpu_is_noncoherent_r10000(struct device *dev)
 	       current_cpu_type() == CPU_R12000);
 }
 
+static gfp_t massage_gfp_flags(const struct device *dev, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	/* ignore region specifiers */
+	gfp &= ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_DMA32 | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
+	if (dev == NULL)
+		gfp |= __GFP_DMA;
+	else if (dev->coherent_dma_mask < DMA_BIT_MASK(24))
+		gfp |= __GFP_DMA;
+	else
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
+	     if (dev->coherent_dma_mask < DMA_BIT_MASK(32))
+		gfp |= __GFP_DMA32;
+	else
+#endif
+		;
+
+	/* Don't invoke OOM killer */
+	gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY;
+
+	return gfp;
+}
+
 void *dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
 	dma_addr_t * dma_handle, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	void *ret;
 
-	/* ignore region specifiers */
-	gfp &= ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
+	gfp = massage_gfp_flags(dev, gfp);
 
-	if (dev == NULL || (dev->coherent_dma_mask < 0xffffffff))
-		gfp |= GFP_DMA;
 	ret = (void *) __get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
 
 	if (ret != NULL) {
@@ -67,11 +89,8 @@ void *dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
 {
 	void *ret;
 
-	/* ignore region specifiers */
-	gfp &= ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
+	gfp = massage_gfp_flags(dev, gfp);
 
-	if (dev == NULL || (dev->coherent_dma_mask < 0xffffffff))
-		gfp |= GFP_DMA;
 	ret = (void *) __get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
 
 	if (ret) {
@@ -343,7 +362,7 @@ int dma_supported(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
 	 * so we can't guarantee allocations that must be
 	 * within a tighter range than GFP_DMA..
 	 */
-	if (mask < 0x00ffffff)
+	if (mask < DMA_BIT_MASK(24))
 		return 0;
 
 	return 1;
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/init.c b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
index ec3b9e9f30f4..480dec04f552 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
@@ -347,11 +347,8 @@ static int __init page_is_ram(unsigned long pagenr)
 
 void __init paging_init(void)
 {
-	unsigned long zones_size[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0, };
-#ifndef CONFIG_FLATMEM
-	unsigned long zholes_size[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0, };
-	unsigned long i, j, pfn;
-#endif
+	unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES];
+	unsigned long lastpfn;
 
 	pagetable_init();
 
@@ -361,35 +358,27 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 	kmap_coherent_init();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
-	if (min_low_pfn < MAX_DMA_PFN && MAX_DMA_PFN <= max_low_pfn) {
-		zones_size[ZONE_DMA] = MAX_DMA_PFN - min_low_pfn;
-		zones_size[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn - MAX_DMA_PFN;
-	} else if (max_low_pfn < MAX_DMA_PFN)
-		zones_size[ZONE_DMA] = max_low_pfn - min_low_pfn;
-	else
+	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = MAX_DMA_PFN;
 #endif
-	zones_size[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn - min_low_pfn;
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
+	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA32] = MAX_DMA32_PFN;
+#endif
+	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn;
+	lastpfn = max_low_pfn;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-	zones_size[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = highend_pfn - highstart_pfn;
+	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = highend_pfn;
+	lastpfn = highend_pfn;
 
-	if (cpu_has_dc_aliases && zones_size[ZONE_HIGHMEM]) {
+	if (cpu_has_dc_aliases && max_low_pfn != highend_pfn) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "This processor doesn't support highmem."
-		       " %ldk highmem ignored\n", zones_size[ZONE_HIGHMEM]);
-		zones_size[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = 0;
+		       " %ldk highmem ignored\n",
+		       (highend_pfn - max_low_pfn) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
+		max_zone_pfns[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = max_low_pfn;
+		lastpfn = max_low_pfn;
 	}
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM
-	free_area_init(zones_size);
-#else
-	pfn = min_low_pfn;
-	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++)
-		for (j = 0; j < zones_size[i]; j++, pfn++)
-			if (!page_is_ram(pfn))
-				zholes_size[i]++;
-	free_area_init_node(0, NODE_DATA(0), zones_size, 0, zholes_size);
-#endif
+	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
 }
 
 static struct kcore_list kcore_mem, kcore_vmalloc;
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/dma.h b/include/asm-mips/dma.h
index 833437d31ef1..d6a6c21f16db 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/dma.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/dma.h
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
 #define MAX_DMA_ADDRESS		(PAGE_OFFSET + 0x01000000)
 #endif
 #define MAX_DMA_PFN		PFN_DOWN(virt_to_phys((void *)MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
+#define MAX_DMA32_PFN		(1UL << (32 - PAGE_SHIFT))
 
 /* 8237 DMA controllers */
 #define IO_DMA1_BASE	0x00	/* 8 bit slave DMA, channels 0..3 */