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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)
commit12bb25fc74e5245a3b7a7f4004158d9e1ebfc76e
treebca1af3437f43cf8318b18d0b0b63adb653a6685
parent3c3d32fc5bfb83cdef946d8a178825907312e98e
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 757775a9be6b0a40ec4f62ed70ba4f63b39ca4f5
(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