Commit d065bd810b6deb67d4897a14bfe21f8eb526ba99 (mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and commit 37b23e0525d393d48a7d59f870b3bc061a30ccdb (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. I was facing hang and livelock problems on my ARM and MIPS boards when I invoked OOM by running the stress_32k.c test-case attached to this email. Since both the ARM and MIPS porting chainges were accepted, me and my co-worker decided to take the initiative to port these changes to all other MMU based architectures. Please review and do write back if there is any way I need to improve/rewrite any of these patches. Signed-off-by: Mohd. Faris Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul ---