As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3bd, we want to call the architecture independent oom killer when getting an unexplained OOM from handle_mm_fault, rather than simply killing current. Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c @@ -359,15 +359,10 @@ bad_area_nosemaphore: */ out_of_memory: up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (is_global_init(current)) { - yield(); - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - goto survive; - } - printk("VM: killing process %s\n", current->comm); - if (user_mode(regs)) - do_group_exit(SIGKILL); - return SIGKILL; + if (!user_mode(regs)) + return SIGKILL; + pagefault_out_of_memory(); + return 0; do_sigbus: up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html