diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 1b7e22ab9b09..22b7e18e9dea 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -53,10 +53,12 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
 		struct page *page;
 
 		if (node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
-			page = alloc_pages_node(node,
-				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, get_order(size));
+			page = alloc_pages_node(
+				node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT,
+				get_order(size));
 		else
-			page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
+			page = alloc_pages(
+				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT,
 				get_order(size));
 		if (page)
 			return page_address(page);