diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 66a36befc5c0..844e288b9576 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -65,12 +65,31 @@ kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 void *
 kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {
+	unsigned noio_flag = 0;
 	void	*ptr;
+	gfp_t	lflags;
 
 	ptr = kmem_zalloc(size, flags | KM_MAYFAIL);
 	if (ptr)
 		return ptr;
-	return vzalloc(size);
+
+	/*
+	 * __vmalloc() will allocate data pages and auxillary structures (e.g.
+	 * pagetables) with GFP_KERNEL, yet we may be under GFP_NOFS context
+	 * here. Hence we need to tell memory reclaim that we are in such a
+	 * context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent memory reclaim re-entering
+	 * the filesystem here and potentially deadlocking.
+	 */
+	if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
+		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
+
+	lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
+	ptr = __vmalloc(size, lflags | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
+
+	if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
+		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
+
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index 9c061ef2b0d9..107f2fdfe41f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -396,7 +396,17 @@ _xfs_buf_map_pages(
 		bp->b_addr = NULL;
 	} else {
 		int retried = 0;
+		unsigned noio_flag;
 
+		/*
+		 * vm_map_ram() will allocate auxillary structures (e.g.
+		 * pagetables) with GFP_KERNEL, yet we are likely to be under
+		 * GFP_NOFS context here. Hence we need to tell memory reclaim
+		 * that we are in such a context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent
+		 * memory reclaim re-entering the filesystem here and
+		 * potentially deadlocking.
+		 */
+		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
 		do {
 			bp->b_addr = vm_map_ram(bp->b_pages, bp->b_page_count,
 						-1, PAGE_KERNEL);
@@ -404,6 +414,7 @@ _xfs_buf_map_pages(
 				break;
 			vm_unmap_aliases();
 		} while (retried++ <= 1);
+		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
 
 		if (!bp->b_addr)
 			return -ENOMEM;