1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 7d8e56214ac0..d911fa5cb2a7 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1078,7 +1078,8 @@ static struct page *new_page(struct page *page, unsigned long start, int **x)
         /*
          * if !vma, alloc_page_vma() will use task or system default policy
          */
-        return alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, address);
+        return alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,
+                        vma, address);
 }
 #else