diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/common.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/common.h
index 6c77023659c77..da824805c2ba4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/common.h
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ static inline int qmem_alloc(struct device *dev, struct qmem **q,
 
 	qmem->entry_sz = entry_sz;
 	qmem->alloc_sz = (qsize * entry_sz) + OTX2_ALIGN;
-	qmem->base = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, qmem->alloc_sz,
-					 &qmem->iova, GFP_KERNEL);
+	qmem->base = dma_alloc_attrs(dev, qmem->alloc_sz, &qmem->iova,
+				     GFP_KERNEL, DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS);
 	if (!qmem->base)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ static inline void qmem_free(struct device *dev, struct qmem *qmem)
 		return;
 
 	if (qmem->base)
-		dma_free_coherent(dev, qmem->alloc_sz,
-				  qmem->base - qmem->align,
-				  qmem->iova - qmem->align);
+		dma_free_attrs(dev, qmem->alloc_sz,
+			       qmem->base - qmem->align,
+			       qmem->iova - qmem->align,
+			       DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS);
 	devm_kfree(dev, qmem);
 }