I've seen cases where bulk alloc fails, since the bulk alloc API
is all-or-nothing - either we get the number we ask for, or it
returns 0 as number of entries.
If we fail a batch bulk alloc, retry a "normal" kmem_cache_alloc()
and just use that instead of failing with -EAGAIN.
While in there, ensure we use GFP_KERNEL. That was an oversight in
the original code, when we switched away from GFP_ATOMIC.