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: linux-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c @@ -188,16 +188,10 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long address, uns /* We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that made us unable to handle the page fault gracefully. */ out_of_memory: - if (is_global_init(current)) { - yield(); - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - goto survive; - } - printk(KERN_ALERT "VM: killing process %s(%d)\n", - current->comm, task_pid_nr(current)); if (!user_mode(regs)) goto no_context; - do_group_exit(SIGKILL); + pagefault_out_of_memory(); + return; do_sigbus: /* Send a sigbus, regardless of whether we were in kernel -- 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