diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5e805a6..c1815a6 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2557,13 +2557,16 @@
 	if (gfp_flags & SLUB_DMA)
 		flags = SLAB_CACHE_DMA;
 
-	down_write(&slub_lock);
+	/*
+	 * This function is called with IRQs disabled during early-boot on
+	 * single CPU so there's no need to take slub_lock here.
+	 */
 	if (!kmem_cache_open(s, gfp_flags, name, size, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
 								flags, NULL))
 		goto panic;
 
 	list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches);
-	up_write(&slub_lock);
+
 	if (sysfs_slab_add(s))
 		goto panic;
 	return s;
@@ -3021,7 +3024,7 @@
 	 * kmem_cache_open for slab_state == DOWN.
 	 */
 	create_kmalloc_cache(&kmalloc_caches[0], "kmem_cache_node",
-		sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node), GFP_KERNEL);
+		sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node), GFP_NOWAIT);
 	kmalloc_caches[0].refcount = -1;
 	caches++;
 
@@ -3034,16 +3037,16 @@
 	/* Caches that are not of the two-to-the-power-of size */
 	if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 64) {
 		create_kmalloc_cache(&kmalloc_caches[1],
-				"kmalloc-96", 96, GFP_KERNEL);
+				"kmalloc-96", 96, GFP_NOWAIT);
 		caches++;
 		create_kmalloc_cache(&kmalloc_caches[2],
-				"kmalloc-192", 192, GFP_KERNEL);
+				"kmalloc-192", 192, GFP_NOWAIT);
 		caches++;
 	}
 
 	for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT; i++) {
 		create_kmalloc_cache(&kmalloc_caches[i],
-			"kmalloc", 1 << i, GFP_KERNEL);
+			"kmalloc", 1 << i, GFP_NOWAIT);
 		caches++;
 	}
 
@@ -3080,7 +3083,7 @@
 	/* Provide the correct kmalloc names now that the caches are up */
 	for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT; i++)
 		kmalloc_caches[i]. name =
-			kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "kmalloc-%d", 1 << i);
+			kasprintf(GFP_NOWAIT, "kmalloc-%d", 1 << i);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	register_cpu_notifier(&slab_notifier);