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diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 089eaca860b4..a0fa3bf0d1bb 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1333,6 +1333,21 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
trace_xfs_writepage(inode, page, 0);
/*
+ * Refuse to write the page out if we are called from reclaim context.
+ *
+ * This is primarily to avoid stack overflows when called from deep
+ * used stacks in random callers for direct reclaim, but disabling
+ * reclaim for kswap is a nice side-effect as kswapd causes rather
+ * suboptimal I/O patters, too.
+ *
+ * This should really be done by the core VM, but until that happens
+ * filesystems like XFS, btrfs and ext4 have to take care of this
+ * by themselves.
+ */
+ if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
+ goto out_fail;
+
+ /*
* We need a transaction if:
* 1. There are delalloc buffers on the page
* 2. The page is uptodate and we have unmapped buffers
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