diff --git a/arch/riscv/boot/loader.lds.S b/arch/riscv/boot/loader.lds.S
index 47a5003c2e28..62d94696a19c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/boot/loader.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/boot/loader.lds.S
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
 
 OUTPUT_ARCH(riscv)
 ENTRY(_start)
 
 SECTIONS
 {
-	. = PAGE_OFFSET;
+	. = KERNEL_LINK_ADDR;
 
 	.payload : {
 		*(.payload)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
index adc9d26f3d75..0cdd0c4db941 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h
@@ -90,15 +90,28 @@ typedef struct page *pgtable_t;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 extern unsigned long va_pa_offset;
+extern unsigned long va_kernel_pa_offset;
 extern unsigned long pfn_base;
 #define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET		(pfn_base)
 #else
 #define va_pa_offset		0
+#define va_kernel_pa_offset	0
 #define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET		(PAGE_OFFSET >> PAGE_SHIFT)
 #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
 
-#define __pa_to_va_nodebug(x)	((void *)((unsigned long) (x) + va_pa_offset))
-#define __va_to_pa_nodebug(x)	((unsigned long)(x) - va_pa_offset)
+extern unsigned long kernel_virt_addr;
+
+#define linear_mapping_pa_to_va(x)	((void *)((unsigned long)(x) + va_pa_offset))
+#define __pa_to_va_nodebug(x)		linear_mapping_pa_to_va(x)
+
+#define linear_mapping_va_to_pa(x)	((unsigned long)(x) - va_pa_offset)
+#define kernel_mapping_va_to_pa(x)	\
+	((unsigned long)(x) - va_kernel_pa_offset)
+#define __va_to_pa_nodebug(x)	({						\
+	unsigned long _x = x;							\
+	(_x < kernel_virt_addr) ?						\
+		linear_mapping_va_to_pa(_x) : kernel_mapping_va_to_pa(_x);	\
+	})
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
 extern phys_addr_t __virt_to_phys(unsigned long x);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index ebf817c1bdf4..80e63a93e903 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -11,23 +11,30 @@
 
 #include <asm/pgtable-bits.h>
 
-#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
-
-/* Page Upper Directory not used in RISC-V */
-#include <asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h>
-#include <asm/page.h>
-#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
-#include <linux/mm_types.h>
+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+#define KERNEL_LINK_ADDR	PAGE_OFFSET
+#else
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+#define ADDRESS_SPACE_END	(UL(-1))
+/*
+ * Leave 2GB for kernel and BPF at the end of the address space
+ */
+#define KERNEL_LINK_ADDR	(ADDRESS_SPACE_END - SZ_2G + 1)
 
 #define VMALLOC_SIZE     (KERN_VIRT_SIZE >> 1)
 #define VMALLOC_END      (PAGE_OFFSET - 1)
 #define VMALLOC_START    (PAGE_OFFSET - VMALLOC_SIZE)
 
+/* KASLR should leave at least 128MB for BPF after the kernel */
 #define BPF_JIT_REGION_SIZE	(SZ_128M)
-#define BPF_JIT_REGION_START	(PAGE_OFFSET - BPF_JIT_REGION_SIZE)
-#define BPF_JIT_REGION_END	(VMALLOC_END)
+#define BPF_JIT_REGION_START	PFN_ALIGN((unsigned long)&_end)
+#define BPF_JIT_REGION_END	(BPF_JIT_REGION_START + BPF_JIT_REGION_SIZE)
+
+/* Modules always live before the kernel */
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+#define MODULES_VADDR	(PFN_ALIGN((unsigned long)&_end) - SZ_2G)
+#define MODULES_END	(PFN_ALIGN((unsigned long)&_start))
+#endif
 
 /*
  * Roughly size the vmemmap space to be large enough to fit enough
@@ -57,9 +64,16 @@
 #define FIXADDR_SIZE     PGDIR_SIZE
 #endif
 #define FIXADDR_START    (FIXADDR_TOP - FIXADDR_SIZE)
-
 #endif
 
+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+
+/* Page Upper Directory not used in RISC-V */
+#include <asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>
+#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+#include <linux/mm_types.h>
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 #include <asm/pgtable-64.h>
 #else
@@ -484,6 +498,7 @@ static inline int ptep_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 #define kern_addr_valid(addr)   (1) /* FIXME */
 
+extern char _start[];
 extern void *dtb_early_va;
 extern uintptr_t dtb_early_pa;
 void setup_bootmem(void);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
index 6887b3d9f371..a9c56776fa0e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ int set_memory_x(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
 int set_memory_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
 int set_memory_rw_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
 void protect_kernel_text_data(void);
+void protect_kernel_linear_mapping_text_rodata(void);
 #else
 static inline int set_memory_ro(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { return 0; }
 static inline int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { return 0; }
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
index f5a9bad86e58..6cb05f22e52a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ pe_head_start:
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 relocate:
 	/* Relocate return address */
-	li a1, PAGE_OFFSET
+	la a1, kernel_virt_addr
+	REG_L a1, 0(a1)
 	la a2, _start
 	sub a1, a1, a2
 	add ra, ra, a1
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
index 104fba889cf7..ce153771e5e9 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
@@ -408,12 +408,10 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, const char *strtab,
 }
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
-#define VMALLOC_MODULE_START \
-	 max(PFN_ALIGN((unsigned long)&_end - SZ_2G), VMALLOC_START)
 void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
 {
-	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, VMALLOC_MODULE_START,
-				    VMALLOC_END, GFP_KERNEL,
+	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR,
+				    MODULES_END, GFP_KERNEL,
 				    PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, 0, NUMA_NO_NODE,
 				    __builtin_return_address(0));
 }
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
index e85bacff1b50..30e4af0fd50c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX))
 		protect_kernel_text_data();
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_MMU)
+	protect_kernel_linear_mapping_text_rodata();
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
 	swiotlb_init(1);
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index de03cb22d0e9..0726c05e0336 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2017 SiFive
  */
 
-#define LOAD_OFFSET PAGE_OFFSET
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+#define LOAD_OFFSET KERNEL_LINK_ADDR
 #include <asm/vmlinux.lds.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/cache.h>
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
index 8f17519208c7..1b14d523a95c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -231,6 +231,19 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		return;
 	}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+	/*
+	 * Modules in 64bit kernels lie in their own virtual region which is not
+	 * in the vmalloc region, but dealing with page faults in this region
+	 * or the vmalloc region amounts to doing the same thing: checking that
+	 * the mapping exists in init_mm.pgd and updating user page table, so
+	 * just use vmalloc_fault.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(addr >= MODULES_VADDR && addr < MODULES_END)) {
+		vmalloc_fault(regs, code, addr);
+		return;
+	}
+#endif
 	/* Enable interrupts if they were enabled in the parent context. */
 	if (likely(regs->status & SR_PIE))
 		local_irq_enable();
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 7f5036fbee8c..762827313d99 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
 
 #include "../kernel/head.h"
 
+unsigned long kernel_virt_addr = KERNEL_LINK_ADDR;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_virt_addr);
+
 unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)]
 							__page_aligned_bss;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page);
@@ -88,6 +91,8 @@ static void print_vm_layout(void)
 		  (unsigned long)VMALLOC_END);
 	print_mlm("lowmem", (unsigned long)PAGE_OFFSET,
 		  (unsigned long)high_memory);
+	print_mlm("kernel", (unsigned long)KERNEL_LINK_ADDR,
+		  (unsigned long)ADDRESS_SPACE_END);
 }
 #else
 static void print_vm_layout(void) { }
@@ -116,8 +121,13 @@ void __init setup_bootmem(void)
 	/* The maximal physical memory size is -PAGE_OFFSET. */
 	memblock_enforce_memory_limit(-PAGE_OFFSET);
 
-	/* Reserve from the start of the kernel to the end of the kernel */
-	memblock_reserve(vmlinux_start, vmlinux_end - vmlinux_start);
+	/*
+	 * Reserve from the start of the kernel to the end of the kernel
+	 * and make sure we align the reservation on PMD_SIZE since we will
+	 * map the kernel in the linear mapping as read-only: we do not want
+	 * any allocation to happen between _end and the next pmd aligned page.
+	 */
+	memblock_reserve(vmlinux_start, (vmlinux_end - vmlinux_start + PMD_SIZE - 1) & PMD_MASK);
 
 	/*
 	 * memblock allocator is not aware of the fact that last 4K bytes of
@@ -152,8 +162,12 @@ void __init setup_bootmem(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 static struct pt_alloc_ops pt_ops;
 
+/* Offset between linear mapping virtual address and kernel load address */
 unsigned long va_pa_offset;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(va_pa_offset);
+/* Offset between kernel mapping virtual address and kernel load address */
+unsigned long va_kernel_pa_offset;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(va_kernel_pa_offset);
 unsigned long pfn_base;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pfn_base);
 
@@ -257,7 +271,7 @@ static pmd_t *get_pmd_virt_late(phys_addr_t pa)
 
 static phys_addr_t __init alloc_pmd_early(uintptr_t va)
 {
-	BUG_ON((va - PAGE_OFFSET) >> PGDIR_SHIFT);
+	BUG_ON((va - kernel_virt_addr) >> PGDIR_SHIFT);
 
 	return (uintptr_t)early_pmd;
 }
@@ -372,17 +386,32 @@ static uintptr_t __init best_map_size(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
 #error "setup_vm() is called from head.S before relocate so it should not use absolute addressing."
 #endif
 
+uintptr_t load_pa, load_sz;
+
+static void __init create_kernel_page_table(pgd_t *pgdir, uintptr_t map_size)
+{
+	uintptr_t va, end_va;
+
+	end_va = kernel_virt_addr + load_sz;
+	for (va = kernel_virt_addr; va < end_va; va += map_size)
+		create_pgd_mapping(pgdir, va,
+				   load_pa + (va - kernel_virt_addr),
+				   map_size, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+}
+
 asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
 {
-	uintptr_t va, pa, end_va;
-	uintptr_t load_pa = (uintptr_t)(&_start);
-	uintptr_t load_sz = (uintptr_t)(&_end) - load_pa;
+	uintptr_t pa;
 	uintptr_t map_size;
 #ifndef __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
 	pmd_t fix_bmap_spmd, fix_bmap_epmd;
 #endif
+	load_pa = (uintptr_t)(&_start);
+	load_sz = (uintptr_t)(&_end) - load_pa;
 
 	va_pa_offset = PAGE_OFFSET - load_pa;
+	va_kernel_pa_offset = kernel_virt_addr - load_pa;
+
 	pfn_base = PFN_DOWN(load_pa);
 
 	/*
@@ -410,26 +439,22 @@ asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
 	create_pmd_mapping(fixmap_pmd, FIXADDR_START,
 			   (uintptr_t)fixmap_pte, PMD_SIZE, PAGE_TABLE);
 	/* Setup trampoline PGD and PMD */
-	create_pgd_mapping(trampoline_pg_dir, PAGE_OFFSET,
+	create_pgd_mapping(trampoline_pg_dir, kernel_virt_addr,
 			   (uintptr_t)trampoline_pmd, PGDIR_SIZE, PAGE_TABLE);
-	create_pmd_mapping(trampoline_pmd, PAGE_OFFSET,
+	create_pmd_mapping(trampoline_pmd, kernel_virt_addr,
 			   load_pa, PMD_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
 #else
 	/* Setup trampoline PGD */
-	create_pgd_mapping(trampoline_pg_dir, PAGE_OFFSET,
+	create_pgd_mapping(trampoline_pg_dir, kernel_virt_addr,
 			   load_pa, PGDIR_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Setup early PGD covering entire kernel which will allows
+	 * Setup early PGD covering entire kernel which will allow
 	 * us to reach paging_init(). We map all memory banks later
 	 * in setup_vm_final() below.
 	 */
-	end_va = PAGE_OFFSET + load_sz;
-	for (va = PAGE_OFFSET; va < end_va; va += map_size)
-		create_pgd_mapping(early_pg_dir, va,
-				   load_pa + (va - PAGE_OFFSET),
-				   map_size, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+	create_kernel_page_table(early_pg_dir, map_size);
 
 #ifndef __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
 	/* Setup early PMD for DTB */
@@ -492,6 +517,22 @@ asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
 #endif
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+void protect_kernel_linear_mapping_text_rodata(void)
+{
+	unsigned long text_start = (unsigned long)lm_alias(_start);
+	unsigned long init_text_start = (unsigned long)lm_alias(__init_text_begin);
+	unsigned long rodata_start = (unsigned long)lm_alias(__start_rodata);
+	unsigned long data_start = (unsigned long)lm_alias(_data);
+
+	set_memory_ro(text_start, (init_text_start - text_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	set_memory_nx(text_start, (init_text_start - text_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+	set_memory_ro(rodata_start, (data_start - rodata_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	set_memory_nx(rodata_start, (data_start - rodata_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+}
+#endif
+
 static void __init setup_vm_final(void)
 {
 	uintptr_t va, map_size;
@@ -513,7 +554,7 @@ static void __init setup_vm_final(void)
 			   __pa_symbol(fixmap_pgd_next),
 			   PGDIR_SIZE, PAGE_TABLE);
 
-	/* Map all memory banks */
+	/* Map all memory banks in the linear mapping */
 	for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
 		if (start >= end)
 			break;
@@ -525,10 +566,13 @@ static void __init setup_vm_final(void)
 		for (pa = start; pa < end; pa += map_size) {
 			va = (uintptr_t)__va(pa);
 			create_pgd_mapping(swapper_pg_dir, va, pa,
-					   map_size, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+					   map_size, PAGE_KERNEL);
 		}
 	}
 
+	/* Map the kernel */
+	create_kernel_page_table(swapper_pg_dir, PMD_SIZE);
+
 	/* Clear fixmap PTE and PMD mappings */
 	clear_fixmap(FIX_PTE);
 	clear_fixmap(FIX_PMD);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c
index 3fc18f469efb..1b968855d389 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -194,6 +194,10 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
 	phys_addr_t _start, _end;
 	u64 i;
 
+	/*
+	 * Populate all kernel virtual address space with kasan_early_shadow_page
+	 * except for the linear mapping and the modules/kernel/BPF mapping.
+	 */
 	kasan_populate_early_shadow((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START,
 				    (void *)kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)
 								VMEMMAP_END));
@@ -206,6 +210,7 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
 			(void *)kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)VMALLOC_START),
 			(void *)kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)VMALLOC_END));
 
+	/* Populate the linear mapping */
 	for_each_mem_range(i, &_start, &_end) {
 		void *start = (void *)__va(_start);
 		void *end = (void *)__va(_end);
@@ -216,6 +221,10 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
 		kasan_populate(kasan_mem_to_shadow(start), kasan_mem_to_shadow(end));
 	};
 
+	/* Populate kernel, BPF, modules mapping */
+	kasan_populate(kasan_mem_to_shadow((const void *)MODULES_VADDR),
+		       kasan_mem_to_shadow((const void *)BPF_JIT_REGION_END));
+
 	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++)
 		set_pte(&kasan_early_shadow_pte[i],
 			mk_pte(virt_to_page(kasan_early_shadow_page),
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c b/arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c
index e8e4dcd39fed..35703d5ef5fd 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__virt_to_phys);
 
 phys_addr_t __phys_addr_symbol(unsigned long x)
 {
-	unsigned long kernel_start = (unsigned long)PAGE_OFFSET;
+	unsigned long kernel_start = (unsigned long)kernel_virt_addr;
 	unsigned long kernel_end = (unsigned long)_end;
 
 	/*
