diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 2065b8f7e8751f50b749796888381b3a2aaaa6be..481c0ab888c8fea5dbd50febaca93e3e6d26e78b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -3563,8 +3563,8 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	/* Copy in the exec list from userland */
-	exec_list = drm_calloc_large(sizeof(*exec_list), args->buffer_count);
-	object_list = drm_calloc_large(sizeof(*object_list), args->buffer_count);
+	exec_list = drm_malloc_ab(sizeof(*exec_list), args->buffer_count);
+	object_list = drm_malloc_ab(sizeof(*object_list), args->buffer_count);
 	if (exec_list == NULL || object_list == NULL) {
 		DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate exec or object list "
 			  "for %d buffers\n",
diff --git a/include/drm/drmP.h b/include/drm/drmP.h
index b0b36838ab11a26b155d983b8b64726aa3362905..1b807d0f6cdb0f8b01abe421ed6a9a066d81714e 100644
--- a/include/drm/drmP.h
+++ b/include/drm/drmP.h
@@ -1545,14 +1545,27 @@ static __inline__ void drm_core_dropmap(struct drm_local_map *map)
 
 static __inline__ void *drm_calloc_large(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
 {
+	if (size != 0 && nmemb > ULONG_MAX / size)
+		return NULL;
+
 	if (size * nmemb <= PAGE_SIZE)
 	    return kcalloc(nmemb, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 
+	return __vmalloc(size * nmemb,
+			 GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
+}
+
+/* Modeled after cairo's malloc_ab, it's like calloc but without the zeroing. */
+static __inline__ void *drm_malloc_ab(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
+{
 	if (size != 0 && nmemb > ULONG_MAX / size)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (size * nmemb <= PAGE_SIZE)
+	    return kmalloc(nmemb * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+
 	return __vmalloc(size * nmemb,
-			 GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
+			 GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL);
 }
 
 static __inline void drm_free_large(void *ptr)