diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 7dcac3bfb771..969bac8404f1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -2434,8 +2434,9 @@ i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
 				 * again with !__GFP_NORETRY. However, we still
 				 * want to fail this allocation rather than
 				 * trigger the out-of-memory killer and for
-				 * this we want the future __GFP_MAYFAIL.
+				 * this we want __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL.
 				 */
+				gfp |= __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL;
 			}
 		} while (1);