diff -urN pre5-vm17/mm/page_alloc.c pre5-vm17fixed/mm/page_alloc.c
--- pre5-vm17/mm/page_alloc.c	Thu Mar  6 18:03:49 2003
+++ pre5-vm17fixed/mm/page_alloc.c	Thu Mar  6 18:07:43 2003
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
 	/* here we're in the low on memory slow path */
 
 rebalance:
-	if (current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC | PF_MEMDIE)) {
+	if (current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC | PF_MEMDIE) && !in_interrupt()) {
 		zone = zonelist->zones;
 		for (;;) {
 			zone_t *z = *(zone++);