diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
index daf9271..457269c 100644
--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -532,6 +532,9 @@
 					unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 					unsigned long goal, unsigned long limit)
 {
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
+		return kzalloc(size, GFP_NOWAIT);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
 	bootmem_data_t *p_bdata;