diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c
index f29952a55c05..b932a02efccd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c
@@ -519,6 +519,16 @@ static int etnaviv_bind(struct device *dev)
 	priv->num_gpus = 0;
 	priv->shm_gfp_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | __GFP_NOWARN;
 
+	/*
+	 * If the GPU is part of a system with DMA addressing limitations,
+	 * request pages for our SHM backend buffers from the DMA32 zone to
+	 * hopefully avoid performance killing SWIOTLB bounce buffering.
+	 */
+	if (dma_addressing_limited(dev)) {
+		priv->shm_gfp_mask |= GFP_DMA32;
+		priv->shm_gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_HIGHMEM;
+	}
+
 	priv->cmdbuf_suballoc = etnaviv_cmdbuf_suballoc_new(drm->dev);
 	if (IS_ERR(priv->cmdbuf_suballoc)) {
 		dev_err(drm->dev, "Failed to create cmdbuf suballocator\n");
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
index f667e7906d1f..ffac685c2291 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
@@ -798,14 +798,6 @@ int etnaviv_gpu_init(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu)
 	if (ret)
 		goto fail;
 
-	/*
-	 * If the GPU is part of a system with DMA addressing limitations,
-	 * request pages for our SHM backend buffers from the DMA32 zone to
-	 * hopefully avoid performance killing SWIOTLB bounce buffering.
-	 */
-	if (dma_addressing_limited(gpu->dev))
-		priv->shm_gfp_mask |= GFP_DMA32;
-
 	/* Create buffer: */
 	ret = etnaviv_cmdbuf_init(priv->cmdbuf_suballoc, &gpu->buffer,
 				  PAGE_SIZE);