diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h
index 049b80359db67971460afb9cb6840cb8d1410da9..d14fcf82c00cb0e3fb8c1933c4e1c5d9468071c1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ extern struct kmem_cache *pgtable_cache[];
 			pgtable_cache[(shift) - 1];	\
 		})
 
-#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO
+#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO
 
 extern pte_t *pte_fragment_alloc(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long, int);
 extern void pte_fragment_free(unsigned long *, int);
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static inline pgd_t *radix__pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	return (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
 #else
 	struct page *page;
-	page = alloc_pages(PGALLOC_GFP, 4);
+	page = alloc_pages(PGALLOC_GFP | __GFP_REPEAT, 4);
 	if (!page)
 		return NULL;
 	return (pgd_t *) page_address(page);
@@ -93,8 +93,7 @@ static inline void pgd_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, pud_t *pud)
 
 static inline pud_t *pud_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PUD_INDEX_SIZE),
-				GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT);
+	return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PUD_INDEX_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 static inline void pud_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud)
@@ -115,8 +114,7 @@ static inline void __pud_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pud_t *pud,
 
 static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PMD_CACHE_INDEX),
-				GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT);
+	return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PMD_CACHE_INDEX), GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgalloc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgalloc.h
index 8a8a7d991249b56d38d9731cd29ac431d87fa9e8..897d2e1c8a9b84ffa96cc283963e9d322d276ad0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgalloc.h
@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ static inline void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
 
 static inline pud_t *pud_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PUD_INDEX_SIZE),
-				GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT);
+	return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PUD_INDEX_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 static inline void pud_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud)
@@ -190,8 +189,7 @@ static inline void __pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pgtable_t table,
 
 static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PMD_CACHE_INDEX),
-				GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT);
+	return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PMD_CACHE_INDEX), GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 5aac1a3f86cde4471ba3460c3b08d543a43fd0e4..119d18611500f4ccde99916b1012bfba0b9f1039 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static int __hugepte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, hugepd_t *hpdp,
 	cachep = PGT_CACHE(pdshift - pshift);
 #endif
 
-	new = kmem_cache_zalloc(cachep, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT);
+	new = kmem_cache_zalloc(cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	BUG_ON(pshift > HUGEPD_SHIFT_MASK);
 	BUG_ON((unsigned long)new & HUGEPD_SHIFT_MASK);