diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index 125aedc..b5d3428 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -827,7 +827,8 @@
 	 * dm-bufio is resistant to allocation failures (it just keeps
 	 * one buffer reserved in cases all the allocations fail).
 	 * So set flags to not try too hard:
-	 *	GFP_NOIO: don't recurse into the I/O layer
+	 *	GFP_NOWAIT: don't wait; if we need to sleep we'll release our
+	 *		    mutex and wait ourselves.
 	 *	__GFP_NORETRY: don't retry and rather return failure
 	 *	__GFP_NOMEMALLOC: don't use emergency reserves
 	 *	__GFP_NOWARN: don't print a warning in case of failure
@@ -837,7 +838,7 @@
 	 */
 	while (1) {
 		if (dm_bufio_cache_size_latch != 1) {
-			b = alloc_buffer(c, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+			b = alloc_buffer(c, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
 			if (b)
 				return b;
 		}