diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 65068671e460..163190e89ea1 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3145,7 +3145,7 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
 
 	/* do node specific alloc */
 	if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
-		m = memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(huge_page_size(h), huge_page_size(h),
+		m = memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw(huge_page_size(h), huge_page_size(h),
 				0, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nid);
 		if (!m)
 			return 0;