The patch titled m32r: invoke oom-killer from page fault has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is m32r-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: m32r: invoke oom-killer from page fault From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3bd ("mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault") , we want to call the architecture independent oom killer when getting an unexplained OOM from handle_mm_fault, rather than simply killing current. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/m32r/mm/fault.c | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/m32r/mm/fault.c~m32r-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault arch/m32r/mm/fault.c --- a/arch/m32r/mm/fault.c~m32r-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault +++ a/arch/m32r/mm/fault.c @@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ good_area: if ((error_code & ACE_INSTRUCTION) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC)) goto bad_area; -survive: /* * If for any reason at all we couldn't handle the fault, * make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo @@ -271,15 +270,10 @@ no_context: */ out_of_memory: up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (is_global_init(tsk)) { - yield(); - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - goto survive; - } - printk("VM: killing process %s\n", tsk->comm); - if (error_code & ACE_USERMODE) - do_group_exit(SIGKILL); - goto no_context; + if (!(error_code & ACE_USERMODE)) + goto no_context; + pagefault_out_of_memory(); + return; do_sigbus: up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxx are origin.patch fb_defio-redo-fix-for-non-dirty-ptes.patch block-bd_start_claiming-fix-module-refcount.patch block-bd_start_claiming-cleanup.patch fs-splicec-fix-mapping_gfp_mask-usage.patch reiser4.patch avr32-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault.patch frv-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault.patch m32r-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault.patch mn10300-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault.patch xtensa-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html