diff --git a/mm/page_cgroup.c b/mm/page_cgroup.c
index f22b4ebbd8d..3d535d59482 100644
--- a/mm/page_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/page_cgroup.c
@@ -116,10 +116,16 @@ static int __init_refok init_section_page_cgroup(unsigned long pfn)
 		nid = page_to_nid(pfn_to_page(pfn));
 		table_size = sizeof(struct page_cgroup) * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
 		VM_BUG_ON(!slab_is_available());
-		base = kmalloc_node(table_size,
+		if (node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY)) {
+			base = kmalloc_node(table_size,
 				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, nid);
-		if (!base)
-			base = vmalloc_node(table_size, nid);
+			if (!base)
+				base = vmalloc_node(table_size, nid);
+		} else {
+			base = kmalloc(table_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+			if (!base)
+				base = vmalloc(table_size);
+		}
 	} else {
 		/*
  		 * We don't have to allocate page_cgroup again, but
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index a13ea6401ae..d9714bdcb4a 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -48,8 +48,14 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
 {
 	/* If the main allocator is up use that, fallback to bootmem. */
 	if (slab_is_available()) {
-		struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node,
+		struct page *page;
+
+		if (node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
+			page = alloc_pages_node(node,
 				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, get_order(size));
+		else
+			page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
+				get_order(size));
 		if (page)
 			return page_address(page);
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index da432d9f0ae..6ce4aab69e9 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -62,9 +62,12 @@ static struct mem_section noinline __init_refok *sparse_index_alloc(int nid)
 	unsigned long array_size = SECTIONS_PER_ROOT *
 				   sizeof(struct mem_section);
 
-	if (slab_is_available())
-		section = kmalloc_node(array_size, GFP_KERNEL, nid);
-	else
+	if (slab_is_available()) {
+		if (node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
+			section = kmalloc_node(array_size, GFP_KERNEL, nid);
+		else
+			section = kmalloc(array_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	} else
 		section = alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nid), array_size);
 
 	if (section)