diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 2dfdc62f795e63177e3f2f58306840656644492d..70a5b55e0870a0523c0dd8ce629debf2fccebe25 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -25,24 +25,6 @@
 #include "kmem.h"
 #include "xfs_message.h"
 
-/*
- * Greedy allocation.  May fail and may return vmalloced memory.
- */
-void *
-kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *size, size_t minsize, size_t maxsize)
-{
-	void		*ptr;
-	size_t		kmsize = maxsize;
-
-	while (!(ptr = vzalloc(kmsize))) {
-		if ((kmsize >>= 1) <= minsize)
-			kmsize = minsize;
-	}
-	if (ptr)
-		*size = kmsize;
-	return ptr;
-}
-
 void *
 kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {
diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.h b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
index 689f746224e7ab8a0fbf3d2f9acb4f1dd68a9a16..f0fc84fcaac2553283f90bc3f157b924bd03d932 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ static inline void  kmem_free(const void *ptr)
 }
 
 
-extern void *kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *, size_t, size_t);
-
 static inline void *
 kmem_zalloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
index 66e881790c17109496e21bd5e2d7d21f5ecc7fe5..2a6d9b1558e00dca550a2d46f8a5a51b9661ec3a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
@@ -361,7 +361,6 @@ xfs_bulkstat(
 	xfs_agino_t		agino;	/* inode # in allocation group */
 	xfs_agnumber_t		agno;	/* allocation group number */
 	xfs_btree_cur_t		*cur;	/* btree cursor for ialloc btree */
-	size_t			irbsize; /* size of irec buffer in bytes */
 	xfs_inobt_rec_incore_t	*irbuf;	/* start of irec buffer */
 	int			nirbuf;	/* size of irbuf */
 	int			ubcount; /* size of user's buffer */
@@ -388,11 +387,10 @@ xfs_bulkstat(
 	*ubcountp = 0;
 	*done = 0;
 
-	irbuf = kmem_zalloc_greedy(&irbsize, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE * 4);
+	irbuf = kmem_zalloc_large(PAGE_SIZE * 4, KM_SLEEP);
 	if (!irbuf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	nirbuf = irbsize / sizeof(*irbuf);
+	nirbuf = (PAGE_SIZE * 4) / sizeof(*irbuf);
 
 	/*
 	 * Loop over the allocation groups, starting from the last