diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index d396753c0577f05b131a51688a90ebf899bfa9d3..ec9d4559514d6ac765f1e74d91c60ef04055c64f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -236,10 +236,14 @@ extern pgprot_t protection_map[16];
  * ->fault function. The vma's ->fault is responsible for returning a bitmask
  * of VM_FAULT_xxx flags that give details about how the fault was handled.
  *
+ * MM layer fills up gfp_mask for page allocations but fault handler might
+ * alter it if its implementation requires a different allocation context.
+ *
  * pgoff should be used in favour of virtual_address, if possible.
  */
 struct vm_fault {
 	unsigned int flags;		/* FAULT_FLAG_xxx flags */
+	gfp_t gfp_mask;			/* gfp mask to be used for allocations */
 	pgoff_t pgoff;			/* Logical page offset based on vma */
 	void __user *virtual_address;	/* Faulting virtual address */
 
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 1bb007624b53e1cc086ae26d91238d6c3683d6b2..ff42d31c891a1f9fcce038da09c5229fdc0029ed 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1812,19 +1812,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_read_iter);
  * This adds the requested page to the page cache if it isn't already there,
  * and schedules an I/O to read in its contents from disk.
  */
-static int page_cache_read(struct file *file, pgoff_t offset)
+static int page_cache_read(struct file *file, pgoff_t offset, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct page *page;
 	int ret;
 
 	do {
-		page = page_cache_alloc_cold(mapping);
+		page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask|__GFP_COLD);
 		if (!page)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
-		ret = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, offset,
-				mapping_gfp_constraint(mapping, GFP_KERNEL));
+		ret = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, offset, gfp_mask & GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (ret == 0)
 			ret = mapping->a_ops->readpage(file, page);
 		else if (ret == -EEXIST)
@@ -2005,7 +2004,7 @@ int filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	 * We're only likely to ever get here if MADV_RANDOM is in
 	 * effect.
 	 */
-	error = page_cache_read(file, offset);
+	error = page_cache_read(file, offset, vmf->gfp_mask);
 
 	/*
 	 * The page we want has now been added to the page cache.
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f7026c0359406bb631d099af750c57b58b763684..d4e4d37c1989545f27743b640d6340f702ccd432 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1938,6 +1938,20 @@ static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned lo
 		copy_user_highpage(dst, src, va, vma);
 }
 
+static gfp_t __get_fault_gfp_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct file *vm_file = vma->vm_file;
+
+	if (vm_file)
+		return mapping_gfp_mask(vm_file->f_mapping) | __GFP_FS | __GFP_IO;
+
+	/*
+	 * Special mappings (e.g. VDSO) do not have any file so fake
+	 * a default GFP_KERNEL for them.
+	 */
+	return GFP_KERNEL;
+}
+
 /*
  * Notify the address space that the page is about to become writable so that
  * it can prohibit this or wait for the page to get into an appropriate state.
@@ -1953,6 +1967,7 @@ static int do_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
 	vmf.virtual_address = (void __user *)(address & PAGE_MASK);
 	vmf.pgoff = page->index;
 	vmf.flags = FAULT_FLAG_WRITE|FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE;
+	vmf.gfp_mask = __get_fault_gfp_mask(vma);
 	vmf.page = page;
 	vmf.cow_page = NULL;
 
@@ -2757,6 +2772,7 @@ static int __do_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 	vmf.pgoff = pgoff;
 	vmf.flags = flags;
 	vmf.page = NULL;
+	vmf.gfp_mask = __get_fault_gfp_mask(vma);
 	vmf.cow_page = cow_page;
 
 	ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vma, &vmf);
@@ -2923,6 +2939,7 @@ static void do_fault_around(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 	vmf.pgoff = pgoff;
 	vmf.max_pgoff = max_pgoff;
 	vmf.flags = flags;
+	vmf.gfp_mask = __get_fault_gfp_mask(vma);
 	vma->vm_ops->map_pages(vma, &vmf);
 }