From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: npiggin@suse.de Subject: [patch 14/14] xtensa: invoke oom-killer from page fault Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:06:27 +1000 Message-ID: <20100422161224.955039653@suse.de> References: <20100422160613.723698029@suse.de> Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36348 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754197Ab0DVQRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:17:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline; filename=xtensa-pagefault-use-oom.patch Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Chris Zankel 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: Chris Zankel Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- Index: linux-2.6/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c @@ -146,15 +146,10 @@ bad_area: */ 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); - bad_page_fault(regs, address, SIGKILL); + if (!user_mode(regs)) + bad_page_fault(regs, address, SIGKILL); + else + pagefault_out_of_memory(); return; do_sigbus: