diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d7f5bc8..ce63d60 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2732,8 +2732,21 @@
 			goto out;
 	}
 	/* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
-	if (out_of_memory(&oc) || WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
+	if (out_of_memory(&oc) || WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
 		*did_some_progress = 1;
+
+		if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
+			page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order,
+					ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS|ALLOC_CPUSET, ac);
+			/*
+			 * fallback to ignore cpuset restriction if our nodes
+			 * are depleted
+			 */
+			if (!page)
+				page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order,
+					ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, ac);
+		}
+	}
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
 	return page;