--- linux.vanilla/mm/page_alloc.c	Sun Mar 25 17:37:41 2001
+++ linux.21p1/mm/page_alloc.c	Sat Dec 29 03:11:56 2001
@@ -149,7 +149,8 @@
 	 * local since we must deal with fragmentation too and we
 	 * can't rely on the nr_local_pages information.
 	 */
-	if (current->nr_local_pages && !current->allocation_order)
+	if ((current->nr_local_pages && !current->allocation_order) ||
+	    in_interrupt())
 		goto back_local_freelist;
 
 	page = mem_map + map_nr;