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ARM: 7178/1: fault.c: Port OOM changes into do_page_fault
authorKautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:49:50 +0000 (17:49 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:15:26 +0000 (11:15 +0000)
commit371150cbb3e827536f4a1069a876a5a0d52c967f
treebca1af3437f43cf8318b18d0b0b63adb653a6685
parent52c04627d1a8f8bb238b5510992bc3dab7a8b576
ARM: 7178/1: fault.c: Port OOM changes into do_page_fault

Commit a99d657f79def8aeb8b35d80bdbdeb21a5632d86
(mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
commit 64587d42be2d7dc67e4d8a79069c9fc7e8a0b952
(x86,mm: make pagefault killable)

The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.

These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
during OOM killer invocation.

Port these changes to ARM.

Without these changes, my ARM board encounters many hang and livelock
scenarios.
After applying this patch, OOM feature performance improves according to
my testing.

Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/mm/fault.c