diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index 97926b1277b2..22c7d7eb35a0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -1328,6 +1328,15 @@ static void *arm_iommu_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size,
 	if (gfp & GFP_ATOMIC)
 		return __iommu_alloc_atomic(dev, size, handle);
 
+	/*
+	 * Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
+	 * with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
+	 * handle them.  The real problem is that this flag probably
+	 * should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
+	 * platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
+	 */
+	gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
+
 	pages = __iommu_alloc_buffer(dev, size, gfp, attrs);
 	if (!pages)
 		return NULL;