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-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6/arch/ia64/mm/fault.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/ia64/mm/fault.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/ia64/mm/fault.c @@ -276,13 +276,7 @@ ia64_do_page_fault (unsigned long addres out_of_memory: up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (is_global_init(current)) { - yield(); - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - goto survive; - } - printk(KERN_CRIT "VM: killing process %s\n", current->comm); - if (user_mode(regs)) - do_group_exit(SIGKILL); - goto no_context; + if (!user_mode(regs)) + goto no_context; + pagefault_out_of_memory(); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html