diff --git a/include/linux/page-isolation.h b/include/linux/page-isolation.h
index f1417ed..c5d1a7c 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-isolation.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-isolation.h
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ extern int set_migratetype_isolate(struct page *page);
 extern void unset_migratetype_isolate(struct page *page);
 extern unsigned long alloc_contig_freed_pages(unsigned long start,
 					      unsigned long end, gfp_t flag);
+extern int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+			      gfp_t flags);
 extern void free_contig_pages(struct page *page, int nr_pages);
 
 /*
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index be240a3..008a6e8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5463,6 +5463,150 @@ unsigned long alloc_contig_freed_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 	return pfn;
 }
 
+static unsigned long pfn_to_maxpage(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	return pfn & ~(MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES - 1);
+}
+
+static unsigned long pfn_to_maxpage_up(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	return ALIGN(pfn, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
+}
+
+#define MIGRATION_RETRY	5
+static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+	int migration_failed = 0, ret;
+	unsigned long pfn = start;
+
+	/*
+	 * Some code "borrowed" from KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's
+	 * __alloc_contig_pages().
+	 */
+
+	for (;;) {
+		pfn = scan_lru_pages(pfn, end);
+		if (!pfn || pfn >= end)
+			break;
+
+		ret = do_migrate_range(pfn, end);
+		if (!ret) {
+			migration_failed = 0;
+		} else if (ret != -EBUSY
+			|| ++migration_failed >= MIGRATION_RETRY) {
+			return ret;
+		} else {
+			/* There are unstable pages.on pagevec. */
+			lru_add_drain_all();
+			/*
+			 * there may be pages on pcplist before
+			 * we mark the range as ISOLATED.
+			 */
+			drain_all_pages();
+		}
+		cond_resched();
+	}
+
+	if (!migration_failed) {
+		/* drop all pages in pagevec and pcp list */
+		lru_add_drain_all();
+		drain_all_pages();
+	}
+
+	/* Make sure all pages are isolated */
+	if (WARN_ON(test_pages_isolated(start, end)))
+		return -EBUSY;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * alloc_contig_range() -- tries to allocate given range of pages
+ * @start:	start PFN to allocate
+ * @end:	one-past-the-last PFN to allocate
+ * @flags:	flags passed to alloc_contig_freed_pages().
+ *
+ * The PFN range does not have to be pageblock or MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
+ * aligned, hovewer it's callers responsibility to guarantee that we
+ * are the only thread that changes migrate type of pageblocks the
+ * pages fall in.
+ *
+ * Returns zero on success or negative error code.  On success all
+ * pages which PFN is in (start, end) are allocated for the caller and
+ * need to be freed with free_contig_pages().
+ */
+int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+		       gfp_t flags)
+{
+	unsigned long _start, _end;
+	int ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * What we do here is we mark all pageblocks in range as
+	 * MIGRATE_ISOLATE.  Because of the way page allocator work, we
+	 * align the range to MAX_ORDER pages so that page allocator
+	 * won't try to merge buddies from different pageblocks and
+	 * change MIGRATE_ISOLATE to some other migration type.
+	 *
+	 * Once the pageblocks are marked as MIGRATE_ISOLATE, we
+	 * migrate the pages from an unaligned range (ie. pages that
+	 * we are interested in).  This will put all the pages in
+	 * range back to page allocator as MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
+	 *
+	 * When this is done, we take the pages in range from page
+	 * allocator removing them from the buddy system.  This way
+	 * page allocator will never consider using them.
+	 *
+	 * This lets us mark the pageblocks back as
+	 * MIGRATE_CMA/MIGRATE_MOVABLE so that free pages in the
+	 * MAX_ORDER aligned range but not in the unaligned, original
+	 * range are put back to page allocator so that buddy can use
+	 * them.
+	 */
+
+	ret = start_isolate_page_range(pfn_to_maxpage(start),
+				       pfn_to_maxpage_up(end));
+	if (ret)
+		goto done;
+
+	ret = __alloc_contig_migrate_range(start, end);
+	if (ret)
+		goto done;
+
+	/*
+	 * Pages from [start, end) are within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
+	 * aligned blocks that are marked as MIGRATE_ISOLATE.  What's
+	 * more, all pages in [start, end) are free in page allocator.
+	 * What we are going to do is to allocate all pages from
+	 * [start, end) (that is remove them from page allocater).
+	 *
+	 * The only problem is that pages at the beginning and at the
+	 * end of interesting range may be not aligned with pages that
+	 * page allocator holds, ie. they can be part of higher order
+	 * pages.  Because of this, we reserve the bigger range and
+	 * once this is done free the pages we are not interested in.
+	 */
+
+	ret = 0;
+	while (!PageBuddy(pfn_to_page(start & (~0UL << ret))))
+		if (WARN_ON(++ret >= MAX_ORDER))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+	_start = start & (~0UL << ret);
+	_end   = alloc_contig_freed_pages(_start, end, flags);
+
+	/* Free head and tail (if any) */
+	if (start != _start)
+		free_contig_pages(pfn_to_page(_start), start - _start);
+	if (end != _end)
+		free_contig_pages(pfn_to_page(end), _end - end);
+
+	ret = 0;
+done:
+	undo_isolate_page_range(pfn_to_maxpage(start), pfn_to_maxpage_up(end));
+	return ret;
+}
+
 void free_contig_pages(struct page *page, int nr_pages)
 {
 	for (; nr_pages; --nr_pages, ++page)
