diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c b/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c
index c4b64adcbfce..d748f5033861 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c
@@ -517,6 +517,13 @@ void __init kirkwood_wdt_init(void)
 void __init kirkwood_init_early(void)
 {
 	orion_time_set_base(TIMER_VIRT_BASE);
+
+	/*
+	 * Some Kirkwood devices allocate their coherent buffers from atomic
+	 * context. Increase size of atomic coherent pool to make sure such
+	 * the allocations won't fail.
+	 */
+	init_dma_coherent_pool_size(SZ_1M);
 }
 
 int kirkwood_tclk;