diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/Kconfig
index ca1db973e..ac0fa2614 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/Kconfig
@@ -135,3 +135,14 @@ config NVGPU_SUPPORT_CDE
 	default y
 	help
 	  Enable support for extraction of comptags for CDE.
+
+config NVGPU_USE_TEGRA_ALLOC_FD
+	bool "Use tegra_alloc_fd() for allocating dma_buf fds for vidmem"
+	depends on GK20A && GK20A_VIDMEM
+	default y
+	help
+	  Use tegra_alloc_fd() for allocating dma_buf fds. This allocates
+	  the fds above 1024 which exempts them from counting against process
+	  fd limit.
+
+	  It is only available in Tegra kernel.
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/linux/vidmem.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/linux/vidmem.c
index 684262baa..136d4a102 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/linux/vidmem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/linux/vidmem.c
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
 #include <linux/dma-buf.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/nvgpu.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NVGPU_USE_TEGRA_ALLOC_FD
 #include <linux/platform/tegra/tegra_fd.h>
+#endif
 
 #include <nvgpu/dma.h>
 #include <nvgpu/enabled.h>
@@ -195,7 +197,11 @@ int nvgpu_vidmem_export_linux(struct gk20a *g, size_t bytes)
 
 	buf->priv = priv;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NVGPU_USE_TEGRA_ALLOC_FD
 	fd = tegra_alloc_fd(current->files, 1024, O_RDWR);
+#else
+	fd = get_unused_fd_flags(O_RDWR);
+#endif
 	if (fd < 0) {
 		/* ->release frees what we have done */
 		dma_buf_put(priv->dmabuf);