diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 7a58eb5757e3bd61d9dadfd8d851b9641454552d..1423da8dd16f5bdc83e20ddf6665b2022a9a6492 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3291,10 +3291,13 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	/*
 	 * Go through the zonelist yet one more time, keep very high watermark
 	 * here, this is only to catch a parallel oom killing, we must fail if
-	 * we're still under heavy pressure.
+	 * we're still under heavy pressure. But make sure that this reclaim
+	 * attempt shall not depend on __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM && !__GFP_NORETRY
+	 * allocation which will never fail due to oom_lock already held.
 	 */
-	page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask | __GFP_HARDWALL, order,
-					ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH|ALLOC_CPUSET, ac);
+	page = get_page_from_freelist((gfp_mask | __GFP_HARDWALL) &
+				      ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, order,
+				      ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH|ALLOC_CPUSET, ac);
 	if (page)
 		goto out;