diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index 36a5e74f51b48ce00fdcb824874d7bcecdb7b8f0..f036153d9f50eaaa93bd8d8d6bc4da231a9f26d3 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/aio.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
@@ -493,11 +494,19 @@ static void nfs_invalidate_page(struct page *page, unsigned long offset)
  */
 static int nfs_release_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp)
 {
+	struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
+
 	dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: release_page(%p)\n", page);
 
 	/* Only do I/O if gfp is a superset of GFP_KERNEL */
-	if ((gfp & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL)
-		nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page);
+	if (mapping && (gfp & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL) {
+		int how = FLUSH_SYNC;
+
+		/* Don't let kswapd deadlock waiting for OOM RPC calls */
+		if (current_is_kswapd())
+			how = 0;
+		nfs_commit_inode(mapping->host, how);
+	}
 	/* If PagePrivate() is set, then the page is not freeable */
 	if (PagePrivate(page))
 		return 0;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 91679e2631ee0ebaff79cd96fd6e3019ca5a49d8..0a6c65a1f9d786c6116c2698cde922ae887e8dd5 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@ static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_commit_ops = {
 	.rpc_release = nfs_commit_release,
 };
 
-static int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int how)
+int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int how)
 {
 	LIST_HEAD(head);
 	int may_wait = how & FLUSH_SYNC;
@@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ static int nfs_commit_unstable_pages(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_contr
 	return ret;
 }
 #else
-static int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int how)
+int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int how)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index 77c2ae53431cccbdccf7932a84cd032e0b7e914c..f6e2455f13d16262ab4eecc8cc9faafdf8952aa3 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -493,6 +493,7 @@ extern int nfs_wb_all(struct inode *inode);
 extern int nfs_wb_page(struct inode *inode, struct page* page);
 extern int nfs_wb_page_cancel(struct inode *inode, struct page* page);
 #if defined(CONFIG_NFS_V3) || defined(CONFIG_NFS_V4)
+extern int  nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *, int);
 extern struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void);
 extern void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_write_data *wdata);
 #endif