* direct lookup.
                 */
                do {
+                       unsigned int flags;
+
+                       /* While we can still reduce the allocation size, don't
+                        * raise a warning and allow the allocation to fail.
+                        * On the last pass though, we want to try as hard
+                        * as possible to perform the allocation and warn
+                        * if it fails.
+                        */
+                       flags = GFP_TEMPORARY;
+                       if (size > 1)
+                               flags |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
+
                        eb->buckets = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hlist_head) << size,
-                                             GFP_TEMPORARY |
-                                             __GFP_NORETRY |
-                                             __GFP_NOWARN);
+                                             flags);
                        if (eb->buckets)
                                break;
                } while (--size);
 
-               if (unlikely(!eb->buckets)) {
-                       eb->buckets = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hlist_head),
-                                             GFP_TEMPORARY);
-                       if (unlikely(!eb->buckets))
-                               return -ENOMEM;
-               }
+               if (unlikely(!size))
+                       return -ENOMEM;
 
                eb->lut_size = size;
        } else {
                        return err;
        }
 
-       if (eb->lut_size >= 0) {
+       if (eb->lut_size > 0) {
                vma->exec_handle = entry->handle;
                hlist_add_head(&vma->exec_node,
                               &eb->buckets[hash_32(entry->handle,
 static void eb_reset_vmas(const struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
 {
        eb_release_vmas(eb);
-       if (eb->lut_size >= 0)
+       if (eb->lut_size > 0)
                memset(eb->buckets, 0,
                       sizeof(struct hlist_head) << eb->lut_size);
 }
 {
        GEM_BUG_ON(eb->reloc_cache.rq);
 
-       if (eb->lut_size >= 0)
+       if (eb->lut_size > 0)
                kfree(eb->buckets);
 }
 
                }
        }
 
-       if (eb_create(&eb))
-               return -ENOMEM;
+       err = eb_create(&eb);
+       if (err)
+               goto err_out_fence;
+
+       GEM_BUG_ON(!eb.lut_size);
 
        /*
         * Take a local wakeref for preparing to dispatch the execbuf as
 err_rpm:
        intel_runtime_pm_put(eb.i915);
        eb_destroy(&eb);
+err_out_fence:
        if (out_fence_fd != -1)
                put_unused_fd(out_fence_fd);
 err_in_fence: