diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/six.c b/fs/bcachefs/six.c
index 7e7c66a1e1a6..ccdc6d496910 100644
--- a/fs/bcachefs/six.c
+++ b/fs/bcachefs/six.c
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ void __six_lock_init(struct six_lock *lock, const char *name,
                 * failure if they wish by checking lock->readers, but generally
                 * will not want to treat it as an error.
                 */
-               lock->readers = alloc_percpu(unsigned);
+               lock->readers = alloc_percpu_gfp(unsigned, GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_NOWARN);
        }
 #endif
 }