diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f7da2a2934b7447b719e7fab3b5cf5776c2d3304..cefe6fe8d991b32b1b0e66c86953d92e00c39aea 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@ static int default_zonelist_order(void)
          * ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 can be very small area in the system.
 	 * If they are really small and used heavily, the system can fall
 	 * into OOM very easily.
-	 * This function detect ZONE_DMA/DMA32 size and confgigures zone order.
+	 * This function detect ZONE_DMA/DMA32 size and configures zone order.
 	 */
 	/* Is there ZONE_NORMAL ? (ex. ppc has only DMA zone..) */
 	low_kmem_size = 0;
@@ -2618,6 +2618,15 @@ static int default_zonelist_order(void)
 				if (zone_type < ZONE_NORMAL)
 					low_kmem_size += z->present_pages;
 				total_size += z->present_pages;
+			} else if (zone_type == ZONE_NORMAL) {
+				/*
+				 * If any node has only lowmem, then node order
+				 * is preferred to allow kernel allocations
+				 * locally; otherwise, they can easily infringe
+				 * on other nodes when there is an abundance of
+				 * lowmem available to allocate from.
+				 */
+				return ZONELIST_ORDER_NODE;
 			}
 		}
 	}