diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/common.c b/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/common.c
index 410291c67666..a6cd14ab1e4e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/common.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/common.c
@@ -204,6 +204,13 @@ void __init orion5x_wdt_init(void)
 void __init orion5x_init_early(void)
 {
 	orion_time_set_base(TIMER_VIRT_BASE);
+
+	/*
+	 * Some Orion5x 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 orion5x_tclk;