diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sparsemem.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sparsemem.h
index 63acaecc3374..2f901a410586 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sparsemem.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sparsemem.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 #define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	56
 #else
-#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	34
+#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	32
 #endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
 #define SECTION_SIZE_BITS	27
 #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */