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diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/xip_fixup.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/xip_fixup.h
index b65bf6306f69..f3d56299bc22 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/xip_fixup.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/xip_fixup.h
@@ -9,18 +9,36 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
.macro XIP_FIXUP_OFFSET reg
- REG_L t0, _xip_fixup
+ /* Fix-up address in Flash into address in RAM early during boot before
+ * MMU is up. Because generated code "thinks" data is in Flash, but it
+ * is actually in RAM (actually data is also in Flash, but Flash is
+ * read-only, thus we need to use the data residing in RAM).
+ *
+ * The start of data in Flash is _sdata and the start of data in RAM is
+ * CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE. So this fix-up essentially does this:
+ * reg += CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE - _start
+ */
+ li t0, CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE
add \reg, \reg, t0
+ la t0, _sdata
+ sub \reg, \reg, t0
.endm
.macro XIP_FIXUP_FLASH_OFFSET reg
+ /* In linker script, at the transition from read-only section to
+ * writable section, the VMA is increased while LMA remains the same.
+ * (See in linker script how _sdata, __data_loc and LOAD_OFFSET is
+ * changed)
+ *
+ * Consequently, early during boot before MMU is up, the generated code
+ * reads the "writable" section at wrong addresses, because VMA is used
+ * by compiler to generate code, but the data is located in Flash using
+ * LMA.
+ */
+ la t0, _sdata
+ sub \reg, \reg, t0
la t0, __data_loc
- REG_L t1, _xip_phys_offset
- sub \reg, \reg, t1
add \reg, \reg, t0
.endm
-
-_xip_fixup: .dword CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE - CONFIG_XIP_PHYS_ADDR - XIP_OFFSET
-_xip_phys_offset: .dword CONFIG_XIP_PHYS_ADDR + XIP_OFFSET
#else
.macro XIP_FIXUP_OFFSET reg
.endm