1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index 374c46dff7d..ec794a72975 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -1077,7 +1077,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
  * until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below
  * the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely
  * impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we
- * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying.
+ * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back
+ * or performing I/O.
  *
  * Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to
  * the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value.
@@ -1091,7 +1092,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
  */
 void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size)
 {
-        gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY;
+        gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT |
+                       __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD;
         size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE);
         void *kbuf;