diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
index 4055e63d0b040ad4b384221a2dcbec4e41fddfec..fec216f4fbc3854f11e6253607511c000b995134 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
@@ -643,14 +643,22 @@ static efi_status_t handle_ramdisks(efi_loaded_image_t *image,
 			u64 size;
 
 			size = initrds[j].size;
-			status = efi_call_phys3(fh->read, initrds[j].handle,
-						&size, addr);
-			if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
-				goto free_initrd_total;
+			while (size) {
+				u64 chunksize;
+				if (size > EFI_READ_CHUNK_SIZE)
+					chunksize = EFI_READ_CHUNK_SIZE;
+				else
+					chunksize = size;
+				status = efi_call_phys3(fh->read,
+							initrds[j].handle,
+							&chunksize, addr);
+				if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
+					goto free_initrd_total;
+				addr += chunksize;
+				size -= chunksize;
+			}
 
 			efi_call_phys1(fh->close, initrds[j].handle);
-
-			addr += size;
 		}
 
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.h
index f66d023e91ef49ce84473d0a33db9a026e478c5e..39251663e65b3fb64404d3cb67299b33313818f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #define DESC_TYPE_CODE_DATA	(1 << 0)
 
 #define EFI_PAGE_SIZE		(1UL << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT)
+#define EFI_READ_CHUNK_SIZE	(1024 * 1024)
 
 #define PIXEL_RGB_RESERVED_8BIT_PER_COLOR		0
 #define PIXEL_BGR_RESERVED_8BIT_PER_COLOR		1