diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_virtio.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_virtio.h
index c13568b9351c06ed1dd2114fb6b68e3c04bad09f..0503936f101f0a11b1271005e4662192545e2906 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_virtio.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_virtio.h
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ struct kvm_vqconfig {
 #define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_RESET		1
 #define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_SET_STATUS	2
 
+/* The alignment to use between consumer and producer parts of vring.
+ * This is pagesize for historical reasons. */
+#define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_RING_ALIGN	4096
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 /* early virtio console setup */
 #ifdef CONFIG_S390_GUEST
diff --git a/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c b/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c
index 3d442444c618ccb431d7e4d6b6e1b5bc4f16924b..f5a2dbe755752b49e4b9cc4c8b9fd857ce84f15d 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ static struct virtqueue *kvm_find_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev,
 	config = kvm_vq_config(kdev->desc)+index;
 
 	err = vmem_add_mapping(config->address,
-			       vring_size(config->num, PAGE_SIZE));
+			       vring_size(config->num,
+					  KVM_S390_VIRTIO_RING_ALIGN));
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -209,7 +210,8 @@ static struct virtqueue *kvm_find_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev,
 	return vq;
 unmap:
 	vmem_remove_mapping(config->address,
-			    vring_size(config->num, PAGE_SIZE));
+			    vring_size(config->num,
+				       KVM_S390_VIRTIO_RING_ALIGN));
 out:
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
@@ -220,7 +222,8 @@ static void kvm_del_vq(struct virtqueue *vq)
 
 	vring_del_virtqueue(vq);
 	vmem_remove_mapping(config->address,
-			    vring_size(config->num, PAGE_SIZE));
+			    vring_size(config->num,
+				       KVM_S390_VIRTIO_RING_ALIGN));
 }
 
 /*