diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index adde450ddf5e..0832f944544c 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3619,8 +3619,44 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 		unsigned int order, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
 {
 	unsigned int nr_allocated = 0;
+	unsigned int nr_remaining = nr_pages;
+	unsigned int max_attempt_order = MAX_PAGE_ORDER;
 	struct page *page;
 	int i;
+	gfp_t large_gfp = (gfp &
+		~(__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | __GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_COMP))
+		| __GFP_NOWARN;
+	unsigned int large_order = ilog2(nr_remaining);
+
+	large_order = min(max_attempt_order, large_order);
+
+	/*
+	 * Initially, attempt to have the page allocator give us large order
+	 * pages. Do not attempt allocating smaller than order chunks since
+	 * __vmap_pages_range() expects physically contigous pages of exactly
+	 * order long chunks.
+	 */
+	while (large_order > order && nr_remaining) {
+		if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+			page = alloc_pages_noprof(large_gfp, large_order);
+		else
+			page = alloc_pages_node_noprof(nid, large_gfp, large_order);
+
+		if (unlikely(!page)) {
+			max_attempt_order = --large_order;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		split_page(page, large_order);
+		for (i = 0; i < (1U << large_order); i++)
+			pages[nr_allocated + i] = page + i;
+
+		nr_allocated += 1U << large_order;
+		nr_remaining = nr_pages - nr_allocated;
+
+		large_order = ilog2(nr_remaining);
+		large_order = min(max_attempt_order, large_order);
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * For order-0 pages we make use of bulk allocator, if