On Sat,  3 Aug 2013 12:59:56 -0400 Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> wrote:

> Unlike global OOM handling, memory cgroup code will invoke the OOM
> killer in any OOM situation because it has no way of telling faults
> occuring in kernel context - which could be handled more gracefully -
> from user-triggered faults.
> 
> Pass a flag that identifies faults originating in user space from the
> architecture-specific fault handlers to generic code so that memcg OOM
> handling can be improved.

arch/arm64/mm/fault.c has changed.  Here's what I came up with:

--- 
a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c~arch-mm-pass-userspace-fault-flag-to-generic-fault-handler
+++ a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -199,13 +199,6 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsig
        unsigned long vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC;
        unsigned int mm_flags = FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE;
 
-       if (esr & ESR_LNX_EXEC) {
-               vm_flags = VM_EXEC;
-       } else if ((esr & ESR_WRITE) && !(esr & ESR_CM)) {
-               vm_flags = VM_WRITE;
-               mm_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
-       }
-
        tsk = current;
        mm  = tsk->mm;
 
@@ -220,6 +213,16 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsig
        if (in_atomic() || !mm)
                goto no_context;
 
+       if (user_mode(regs))
+               mm_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER;
+
+       if (esr & ESR_LNX_EXEC) {
+               vm_flags = VM_EXEC;
+       } else if ((esr & ESR_WRITE) && !(esr & ESR_CM)) {
+               vm_flags = VM_WRITE;
+               mm_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
+       }
+
        /*
         * As per x86, we may deadlock here. However, since the kernel only
         * validly references user space from well defined areas of the code,

But I'm not terribly confident in it.
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