mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault

Rather than have the pagefault handler kill a process directly if it gets
a VM_FAULT_OOM, have it call into the OOM killer.

With increasingly sophisticated oom behaviour (cpusets, memory cgroups,
oom killing throttling, oom priority adjustment or selective disabling,
panic on oom, etc), it's silly to unconditionally kill the faulting
process at page fault time.  Create a hook for pagefault oom path to call
into instead.

Only converted x86 and uml so far.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __out_of_memory() static]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/trap.c b/arch/um/kernel/trap.c
index 44e490419495..7384d8accfe7 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/trap.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/trap.c
@@ -64,11 +64,10 @@ good_area:
 
         do {
                 int fault;
-survive:
+
                 fault = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, is_write);
                 if (unlikely(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR)) {
                         if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM) {
-                                err = -ENOMEM;
                                 goto out_of_memory;
                         } else if (fault & VM_FAULT_SIGBUS) {
                                 err = -EACCES;
@@ -104,18 +103,14 @@ out:
 out_nosemaphore:
         return err;
 
-/*
- * We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that made
- * us unable to handle the page fault gracefully.
- */
 out_of_memory:
-        if (is_global_init(current)) {
-                up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-                yield();
-                down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-                goto survive;
-        }
-        goto out;
+        /*
+         * We ran out of memory, call the OOM killer, and return the userspace
+         * (which will retry the fault, or kill us if we got oom-killed).
+         */
+        up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+        pagefault_out_of_memory();
+        return 0;
 }
 
 static void bad_segv(struct faultinfo fi, unsigned long ip)
@@ -214,9 +209,6 @@ unsigned long segv(struct faultinfo fi, unsigned long ip, int is_user,
                 si.si_addr = (void __user *)address;
                 current->thread.arch.faultinfo = fi;
                 force_sig_info(SIGBUS, &si, current);
-        } else if (err == -ENOMEM) {
-                printk(KERN_INFO "VM: killing process %s\n", current->comm);
-                do_exit(SIGKILL);
         } else {
                 BUG_ON(err != -EFAULT);
                 si.si_signo = SIGSEGV;