diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index bad6a25067bc0c74bd2b904d8bca21b141bbc7f4..d2a892fc92bf97f73058d7bcfd5c040a67895bfe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ static void recalculate_apic_map(struct kvm *kvm)
 		if (kvm_apic_present(vcpu))
 			max_id = max(max_id, kvm_x2apic_id(vcpu->arch.apic));
 
-	new = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_apic_map) +
-	                   sizeof(struct kvm_lapic *) * ((u64)max_id + 1));
+	new = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_apic_map) +
+	                   sizeof(struct kvm_lapic *) * ((u64)max_id + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!new)
 		goto out;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c b/arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c
index 60168cdd05463e2e18c993e20dfdeed7986808ce..ea67dc876316487f4fff2bf2e6a5193510086aee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ int kvm_page_track_create_memslot(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
 	int  i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < KVM_PAGE_TRACK_MAX; i++) {
-		slot->arch.gfn_track[i] = kvm_kvzalloc(npages *
-					    sizeof(*slot->arch.gfn_track[i]));
+		slot->arch.gfn_track[i] = kvzalloc(npages *
+					    sizeof(*slot->arch.gfn_track[i]), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!slot->arch.gfn_track[i])
 			goto track_free;
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index ccbd45ecd41a3fa5c850cf924cccbb2723aecc92..ee22226e3807560fb66396b23dd6c721aab98dcf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -8199,13 +8199,13 @@ int kvm_arch_create_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
 				      slot->base_gfn, level) + 1;
 
 		slot->arch.rmap[i] =
-			kvm_kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*slot->arch.rmap[i]));
+			kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*slot->arch.rmap[i]), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!slot->arch.rmap[i])
 			goto out_free;
 		if (i == 0)
 			continue;
 
-		linfo = kvm_kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*linfo));
+		linfo = kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*linfo), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!linfo)
 			goto out_free;
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-stats.c b/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
index 0250e7e521abcbae456b0552e774d47f507f3dc3..6028d8247f5830cd796356414980ff95a74b1647 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
@@ -146,12 +146,7 @@ static void *dm_kvzalloc(size_t alloc_size, int node)
 	if (!claim_shared_memory(alloc_size))
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (alloc_size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) {
-		p = kzalloc_node(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN, node);
-		if (p)
-			return p;
-	}
-	p = vzalloc_node(alloc_size, node);
+	p = kvzalloc_node(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC, node);
 	if (p)
 		return p;
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 354dc1a894c29bb86dcafcd1b2a5d8a53ca7119d..b60698c104fd13acf097ef13ac368e4602b21b1f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2393,7 +2393,7 @@ int ext4_mb_alloc_groupinfo(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t ngroups)
 		return 0;
 
 	size = roundup_pow_of_two(sizeof(*sbi->s_group_info) * size);
-	new_groupinfo = ext4_kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_groupinfo = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_groupinfo) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't allocate buddy meta group");
 		return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index a9c72e39a4eef288f433836c50f32d8d2aabaed0..b2c74644d5de2eed5f7138a70bd9c436c57f6e9a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2153,7 +2153,7 @@ int ext4_alloc_flex_bg_array(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t ngroup)
 		return 0;
 
 	size = roundup_pow_of_two(size * sizeof(struct flex_groups));
-	new_groups = ext4_kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_groups = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_groups) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "not enough memory for %d flex groups",
 			 size / (int) sizeof(struct flex_groups));
@@ -3887,7 +3887,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 			goto failed_mount;
 		}
 	}
-	sbi->s_group_desc = ext4_kvmalloc(db_count *
+	sbi->s_group_desc = kvmalloc(db_count *
 					  sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
 					  GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (sbi->s_group_desc == NULL) {
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 0a6e115562f62edca5b60ee4c833e889a904c202..1fc17a1fc5d083beb3e05a8a046e36ff79c4f066 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -2005,26 +2005,6 @@ static inline void *f2fs_kmalloc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
 	return kmalloc(size, flags);
 }
 
-static inline void *f2fs_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	void *ret;
-
-	ret = kmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_NOWARN);
-	if (!ret)
-		ret = __vmalloc(size, flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static inline void *f2fs_kvzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	void *ret;
-
-	ret = kzalloc(size, flags | __GFP_NOWARN);
-	if (!ret)
-		ret = __vmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 #define get_inode_mode(i) \
 	((is_inode_flag_set(i, FI_ACL_MODE)) ? \
 	 (F2FS_I(i)->i_acl_mode) : ((i)->i_mode))
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 5f7317875a6726b9ea968f81cbf401b2c8966f8f..0849af78381fb153637b36ee52792eec914dc951 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -1012,11 +1012,11 @@ static int __exchange_data_block(struct inode *src_inode,
 	while (len) {
 		olen = min((pgoff_t)4 * ADDRS_PER_BLOCK, len);
 
-		src_blkaddr = f2fs_kvzalloc(sizeof(block_t) * olen, GFP_KERNEL);
+		src_blkaddr = kvzalloc(sizeof(block_t) * olen, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!src_blkaddr)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
-		do_replace = f2fs_kvzalloc(sizeof(int) * olen, GFP_KERNEL);
+		do_replace = kvzalloc(sizeof(int) * olen, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!do_replace) {
 			kvfree(src_blkaddr);
 			return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
index 481aa8dc79f46f4c156cf67cca665e8160e36e6a..0ea1dca8a0e2911787a66bebafd1854127d4ef36 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
@@ -2621,17 +2621,17 @@ static int init_free_nid_cache(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
 	struct f2fs_nm_info *nm_i = NM_I(sbi);
 
-	nm_i->free_nid_bitmap = f2fs_kvzalloc(nm_i->nat_blocks *
+	nm_i->free_nid_bitmap = kvzalloc(nm_i->nat_blocks *
 					NAT_ENTRY_BITMAP_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nm_i->free_nid_bitmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	nm_i->nat_block_bitmap = f2fs_kvzalloc(nm_i->nat_blocks / 8,
+	nm_i->nat_block_bitmap = kvzalloc(nm_i->nat_blocks / 8,
 								GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nm_i->nat_block_bitmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	nm_i->free_nid_count = f2fs_kvzalloc(nm_i->nat_blocks *
+	nm_i->free_nid_count = kvzalloc(nm_i->nat_blocks *
 					sizeof(unsigned short), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nm_i->free_nid_count)
 		return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 29ef7088c5582a480b6a1f7965fbbcca4f07e24e..13806f642ab5d2e21bed61d4386e0924672633c1 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -2501,13 +2501,13 @@ static int build_sit_info(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 
 	SM_I(sbi)->sit_info = sit_i;
 
-	sit_i->sentries = f2fs_kvzalloc(MAIN_SEGS(sbi) *
+	sit_i->sentries = kvzalloc(MAIN_SEGS(sbi) *
 					sizeof(struct seg_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sit_i->sentries)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SEGS(sbi));
-	sit_i->dirty_sentries_bitmap = f2fs_kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	sit_i->dirty_sentries_bitmap = kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sit_i->dirty_sentries_bitmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -2540,7 +2540,7 @@ static int build_sit_info(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (sbi->segs_per_sec > 1) {
-		sit_i->sec_entries = f2fs_kvzalloc(MAIN_SECS(sbi) *
+		sit_i->sec_entries = kvzalloc(MAIN_SECS(sbi) *
 					sizeof(struct sec_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!sit_i->sec_entries)
 			return -ENOMEM;
@@ -2591,12 +2591,12 @@ static int build_free_segmap(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	SM_I(sbi)->free_info = free_i;
 
 	bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SEGS(sbi));
-	free_i->free_segmap = f2fs_kvmalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	free_i->free_segmap = kvmalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!free_i->free_segmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	sec_bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SECS(sbi));
-	free_i->free_secmap = f2fs_kvmalloc(sec_bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	free_i->free_secmap = kvmalloc(sec_bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!free_i->free_secmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@ static int init_victim_secmap(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	struct dirty_seglist_info *dirty_i = DIRTY_I(sbi);
 	unsigned int bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SECS(sbi));
 
-	dirty_i->victim_secmap = f2fs_kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	dirty_i->victim_secmap = kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!dirty_i->victim_secmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	return 0;
@@ -2786,7 +2786,7 @@ static int build_dirty_segmap(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SEGS(sbi));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_DIRTY_TYPE; i++) {
-		dirty_i->dirty_segmap[i] = f2fs_kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		dirty_i->dirty_segmap[i] = kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!dirty_i->dirty_segmap[i])
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index ca69fb99e41a8872d6d204d8fd8cffe7f08b3336..dc7c2be963ed4e2c2751313a44270b7655a45b4d 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -25,21 +25,7 @@ static void seq_set_overflow(struct seq_file *m)
 
 static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size)
 {
-	void *buf;
-	gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL;
-
-	/*
-	 * For high order allocations, use __GFP_NORETRY to avoid oom-killing -
-	 * it's better to fall back to vmalloc() than to kill things.  For small
-	 * allocations, just use GFP_KERNEL which will oom kill, thus no need
-	 * for vmalloc fallback.
-	 */
-	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
-		gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
-	buf = kmalloc(size, gfp);
-	if (!buf && size > PAGE_SIZE)
-		buf = vmalloc(size);
-	return buf;
+	return kvmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index d0250744507a284138d0e7e702bb64e1d205e769..5d9b2a08e5538afb6ba3e083c8b2a8bdb35f7dfc 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -767,8 +767,6 @@ void kvm_arch_check_processor_compat(void *rtn);
 int kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 int kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 
-void *kvm_kvzalloc(unsigned long size);
-
 #ifndef __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VM_ALLOC
 static inline struct kvm *kvm_arch_alloc_vm(void)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 5d22e69f51ea6ff5f7d3fffef5239fd84bf60d6c..08e2849d27ca82ea060b00c8ee0d0df4e31d8c82 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -518,6 +518,20 @@ static inline int is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(const void *x)
 }
 #endif
 
+extern void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node);
+static inline void *kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return kvmalloc_node(size, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE);
+}
+static inline void *kvzalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+	return kvmalloc_node(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, node);
+}
+static inline void *kvzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return kvmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+
 extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
 
 static inline atomic_t *compound_mapcount_ptr(struct page *page)
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index d68edffbf142cec5f8987a7907b6f2e76cefdfd7..46991ad3ddd53d9a9c64865aa68a8bf7e8a2ccc6 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ extern void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 			unsigned long start, unsigned long end, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 			pgprot_t prot, unsigned long vm_flags, int node,
 			const void *caller);
+extern void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node, gfp_t flags);
 
 extern void vfree(const void *addr);
 extern void vfree_atomic(const void *addr);
diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index 3459a16a9df9f5f5403b6dc63a1c591550dafb1b..caec7b1bfaa335f3d6df017eb9b0ad24058edd9c 100644
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -403,12 +403,7 @@ void ipc_rmid(struct ipc_ids *ids, struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp)
  */
 void *ipc_alloc(int size)
 {
-	void *out;
-	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
-		out = vmalloc(size);
-	else
-		out = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	return out;
+	return kvmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 2d131b97a85169eb11716874b552dc4cef5b4115..a80411d258fc7d42870538fb5679a63260904e32 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
 
+void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return __vmalloc(size, flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
+}
+
 void *vmalloc_user(unsigned long size)
 {
 	void *ret;
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 656dc5e37a8721e892d1b2fd0a9f8c1808b17a2d..10a14a0ac3c249cfbc349f8a8a96f141e972e0e1 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -329,6 +329,51 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
 
+/**
+ * kvmalloc_node - attempt to allocate physically contiguous memory, but upon
+ * failure, fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation.
+ * @size: size of the request.
+ * @flags: gfp mask for the allocation - must be compatible (superset) with GFP_KERNEL.
+ * @node: numa node to allocate from
+ *
+ * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
+ * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
+ *
+ * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported
+ *
+ * Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people.
+ */
+void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+	gfp_t kmalloc_flags = flags;
+	void *ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * vmalloc uses GFP_KERNEL for some internal allocations (e.g page tables)
+	 * so the given set of flags has to be compatible.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM
+	 * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback
+	 */
+	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
+		kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
+
+	ret = kmalloc_node(size, kmalloc_flags, node);
+
+	/*
+	 * It doesn't really make sense to fallback to vmalloc for sub page
+	 * requests
+	 */
+	if (ret || size <= PAGE_SIZE)
+		return ret;
+
+	return __vmalloc_node_flags(size, node, flags | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvmalloc_node);
+
 void kvfree(const void *addr)
 {
 	if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index b52aeed3f58eb735709578b7c557dad1fe8403e0..33603239560eb05f4ba125115d5f0086133cacef 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1786,6 +1786,13 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
  *	Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
  *	allocator with @gfp_mask flags.  Map them into contiguous
  *	kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot.
+ *
+ *	Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT
+ *	and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported
+ *
+ *	Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted
+ *	with mm people.
+ *
  */
 static void *__vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 			    gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot,
@@ -1802,7 +1809,7 @@ void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
 
-static inline void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size,
+void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size,
 					int node, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	return __vmalloc_node(size, 1, flags, PAGE_KERNEL,
diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index 41073f70eb41db135b8b68defa7523c161624991..be0b49897a67030c5d0da9d42a82abf1f2f9e84f 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static struct aa_loaddata *aa_simple_write_to_buffer(const char __user *userbuf,
 		return ERR_PTR(-ESPIPE);
 
 	/* freed by caller to simple_write_to_buffer */
-	data = kvmalloc(sizeof(*data) + alloc_size);
+	data = kvmalloc(sizeof(*data) + alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (data == NULL)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	kref_init(&data->count);
diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/lib.h b/security/apparmor/include/lib.h
index 0291ff3902f900e16882cf179e7dab7516fd1ecb..550a700563b43ecb6546509bd976998e3e2ac578 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/lib.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/lib.h
@@ -64,17 +64,6 @@ char *aa_split_fqname(char *args, char **ns_name);
 const char *aa_splitn_fqname(const char *fqname, size_t n, const char **ns_name,
 			     size_t *ns_len);
 void aa_info_message(const char *str);
-void *__aa_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
-
-static inline void *kvmalloc(size_t size)
-{
-	return __aa_kvmalloc(size, 0);
-}
-
-static inline void *kvzalloc(size_t size)
-{
-	return __aa_kvmalloc(size, __GFP_ZERO);
-}
 
 /**
  * aa_strneq - compare null terminated @str to a non null terminated substring
diff --git a/security/apparmor/lib.c b/security/apparmor/lib.c
index 32cafc12593ef8f52d3164c46a4c90fe6b9a1743..7cd788a9445be4c033e5e7f099ca26de5c678858 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lib.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lib.c
@@ -128,36 +128,6 @@ void aa_info_message(const char *str)
 	printk(KERN_INFO "AppArmor: %s\n", str);
 }
 
-/**
- * __aa_kvmalloc - do allocation preferring kmalloc but falling back to vmalloc
- * @size: how many bytes of memory are required
- * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
- *
- * Return: allocated buffer or NULL if failed
- *
- * It is possible that policy being loaded from the user is larger than
- * what can be allocated by kmalloc, in those cases fall back to vmalloc.
- */
-void *__aa_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	void *buffer = NULL;
-
-	if (size == 0)
-		return NULL;
-
-	/* do not attempt kmalloc if we need more than 16 pages at once */
-	if (size <= (16*PAGE_SIZE))
-		buffer = kmalloc(size, flags | GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY |
-				 __GFP_NOWARN);
-	if (!buffer) {
-		if (flags & __GFP_ZERO)
-			buffer = vzalloc(size);
-		else
-			buffer = vmalloc(size);
-	}
-	return buffer;
-}
-
 /**
  * aa_policy_init - initialize a policy structure
  * @policy: policy to initialize  (NOT NULL)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/match.c b/security/apparmor/match.c
index eb0efef746f56ff193e4b507c97c22c486ffbce9..960c913381e2b61780d1cd9640199538286c13b7 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/match.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/match.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static struct table_header *unpack_table(char *blob, size_t bsize)
 	if (bsize < tsize)
 		goto out;
 
-	table = kvzalloc(tsize);
+	table = kvzalloc(tsize, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (table) {
 		table->td_id = th.td_id;
 		table->td_flags = th.td_flags;
diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
index 2e37c9c26bbd17e0affa3155384979f99953ffa7..f3422a91353c459b3f0a95448aaaff9b6164e1bd 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ static bool unpack_rlimits(struct aa_ext *e, struct aa_profile *profile)
 
 static void *kvmemdup(const void *src, size_t len)
 {
-	void *p = kvmalloc(len);
+	void *p = kvmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (p)
 		memcpy(p, src, len);
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 88257b311cb579b5b720330456f99fbec97a58ac..aca22d36be9c839fbf102499cb971fbdb3c347fc 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ static struct kvm_memslots *kvm_alloc_memslots(void)
 	int i;
 	struct kvm_memslots *slots;
 
-	slots = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));
+	slots = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!slots)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -689,18 +689,6 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type)
 	return ERR_PTR(r);
 }
 
-/*
- * Avoid using vmalloc for a small buffer.
- * Should not be used when the size is statically known.
- */
-void *kvm_kvzalloc(unsigned long size)
-{
-	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
-		return vzalloc(size);
-	else
-		return kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-}
-
 static void kvm_destroy_devices(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
 	struct kvm_device *dev, *tmp;
@@ -782,7 +770,7 @@ static int kvm_create_dirty_bitmap(struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
 {
 	unsigned long dirty_bytes = 2 * kvm_dirty_bitmap_bytes(memslot);
 
-	memslot->dirty_bitmap = kvm_kvzalloc(dirty_bytes);
+	memslot->dirty_bitmap = kvzalloc(dirty_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!memslot->dirty_bitmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1008,7 +996,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 			goto out_free;
 	}
 
-	slots = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));
+	slots = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!slots)
 		goto out_free;
 	memcpy(slots, __kvm_memslots(kvm, as_id), sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));