powerpc: Invoke oom-killer from page fault
authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Thu, 6 May 2010 07:15:58 +0000 (17:15 +1000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Thu, 6 May 2010 07:15:58 +0000 (17:15 +1000)
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: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c

index 83ac493..1bd712c 100644 (file)
@@ -308,7 +308,6 @@ good_area:
         * make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo
         * the fault.
         */
- survive:
        ret = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, is_write ? FAULT_FLAG_WRITE : 0);
        if (unlikely(ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR)) {
                if (ret & VM_FAULT_OOM)
@@ -360,15 +359,10 @@ bad_area_nosemaphore:
  */
 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);
-       return SIGKILL;
+       if (!user_mode(regs))
+               return SIGKILL;
+       pagefault_out_of_memory();
+       return 0;
 
 do_sigbus:
        up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);