diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/mm/page_allocator.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/mm/page_allocator.c
index 96f8f2427..056c0c8fa 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/mm/page_allocator.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/mm/page_allocator.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2016, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2016-2017, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static void __nvgpu_free_pages(struct nvgpu_page_allocator *a,
 		kfree(chunk);
 	}
 
-	kfree(alloc);
+	kmem_cache_free(page_alloc_cache, alloc);
 }
 
 static int __insert_page_alloc(struct nvgpu_page_allocator *a,