diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
index a48d7f1..67918c2 100644
--- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -1,8 +1,43 @@
 #ifndef __LINUX_UACCESS_H__
 #define __LINUX_UACCESS_H__
 
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
+/*
+ * These routines enable/disable the pagefault handler in that
+ * it will not take any locks and go straight to the fixup table.
+ *
+ * They have great resemblance to the preempt_disable/enable calls
+ * and in fact they are identical; this is because currently there is
+ * no other way to make the pagefault handlers do this. So we do
+ * disable preemption but we don't necessarily care about that.
+ */
+static inline void pagefault_disable(void)
+{
+	inc_preempt_count();
+	/*
+	 * make sure to have issued the store before a pagefault
+	 * can hit.
+	 */
+	barrier();
+}
+
+static inline void pagefault_enable(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * make sure to issue those last loads/stores before enabling
+	 * the pagefault handler again.
+	 */
+	barrier();
+	dec_preempt_count();
+	/*
+	 * make sure we do..
+	 */
+	barrier();
+	preempt_check_resched();
+}
+
 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS
 
 static inline unsigned long __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(void *to,
@@ -35,9 +70,9 @@
 	({						\
 		long ret;				\
 							\
-		inc_preempt_count();			\
+		pagefault_disable();			\
 		ret = __get_user(retval, addr);		\
-		dec_preempt_count();			\
+		pagefault_enable();			\
 		ret;					\
 	})