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-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- Index: linux-2.6/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c @@ -180,15 +180,10 @@ good_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); + if (!user_mode(regs)) + goto no_context; + pagefault_out_of_memory(); + return; no_context: current->thread.signo = SIGBUS;