Re: [patch 07/14] m68k: invoke oom-killer from page fault

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 18:06,  <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> 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 <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> ---
> 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;

Will apply after unintroducing 2 compiler warnings::

diff --git a/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c b/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c
index 0adfcb6..2db6099 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ good_area:
 	 * the fault.
 	 */

- survive:
 	fault = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, write ? FAULT_FLAG_WRITE : 0);
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	printk("handle_mm_fault returns %d\n",fault);
@@ -169,7 +168,7 @@ out_of_memory:
 	if (!user_mode(regs))
 		goto no_context;
 	pagefault_out_of_memory();
-	return;
+	return 0;

 no_context:
 	current->thread.signo = SIGBUS;

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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