diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/trap.c b/arch/um/kernel/trap.c
index 44e4904194951f680f187fd4f6137ca289b9cab8..7384d8accfe7d005d896eced4de7ab745452efef 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/trap.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/trap.c
@@ -64,11 +64,10 @@ int handle_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long ip,
 
 	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 @@ int handle_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long ip,
 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;
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 57ec8c86a8776700729f682fc8a9b60b6a3482cd..9e268b6b204e1e3b34d639061aa43fcd9e0bbc3f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -667,7 +667,6 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
 	if (unlikely(in_atomic() || !mm))
 		goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
 
-again:
 	/*
 	 * When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
 	 * addresses in user space.  All other faults represent errors in the
@@ -859,25 +858,14 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
 	oops_end(flags, regs, sig);
 #endif
 
-/*
- * 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:
+	/*
+	 * 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);
-	if (is_global_init(tsk)) {
-		yield();
-		/*
-		 * Re-lookup the vma - in theory the vma tree might
-		 * have changed:
-		 */
-		goto again;
-	}
-
-	printk("VM: killing process %s\n", tsk->comm);
-	if (error_code & PF_USER)
-		do_group_exit(SIGKILL);
-	goto no_context;
+	pagefault_out_of_memory();
+	return;
 
 do_sigbus:
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index aaa8b843be28614a39e30de2772fe9e7af6b8815..4a3d28c86443f8dfdfe5e4ee49a47ef1d27a0f44 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -717,6 +717,11 @@ static inline int page_mapped(struct page *page)
 
 #define VM_FAULT_ERROR	(VM_FAULT_OOM | VM_FAULT_SIGBUS)
 
+/*
+ * Can be called by the pagefault handler when it gets a VM_FAULT_OOM.
+ */
+extern void pagefault_out_of_memory(void);
+
 #define offset_in_page(p)	((unsigned long)(p) & ~PAGE_MASK)
 
 extern void show_free_areas(void);
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 558f9afe6e4e6b0085ddb51633a8b845e2518d18..c592965dab2fc805411015cb879e3fb5a5eb7d38 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -509,6 +509,69 @@ void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 	spin_unlock(&zone_scan_mutex);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Must be called with tasklist_lock held for read.
+ */
+static void __out_of_memory(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order)
+{
+	if (sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task) {
+		oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, 0, NULL,
+				"Out of memory (oom_kill_allocating_task)");
+
+	} else {
+		unsigned long points;
+		struct task_struct *p;
+
+retry:
+		/*
+		 * Rambo mode: Shoot down a process and hope it solves whatever
+		 * issues we may have.
+		 */
+		p = select_bad_process(&points, NULL);
+
+		if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
+			return;
+
+		/* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */
+		if (!p) {
+			read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+			panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
+		}
+
+		if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, order, points, NULL,
+				     "Out of memory"))
+			goto retry;
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * pagefault handler calls into here because it is out of memory but
+ * doesn't know exactly how or why.
+ */
+void pagefault_out_of_memory(void)
+{
+	unsigned long freed = 0;
+
+	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&oom_notify_list, 0, &freed);
+	if (freed > 0)
+		/* Got some memory back in the last second. */
+		return;
+
+	if (sysctl_panic_on_oom)
+		panic("out of memory from page fault. panic_on_oom is selected.\n");
+
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	__out_of_memory(0, 0); /* unknown gfp_mask and order */
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+
+	/*
+	 * Give "p" a good chance of killing itself before we
+	 * retry to allocate memory.
+	 */
+	if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))
+		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+}
+
 /**
  * out_of_memory - kill the "best" process when we run out of memory
  * @zonelist: zonelist pointer
@@ -522,8 +585,6 @@ void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask)
  */
 void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order)
 {
-	struct task_struct *p;
-	unsigned long points = 0;
 	unsigned long freed = 0;
 	enum oom_constraint constraint;
 
@@ -544,7 +605,7 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order)
 
 	switch (constraint) {
 	case CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY:
-		oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, points, NULL,
+		oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, 0, NULL,
 				"No available memory (MPOL_BIND)");
 		break;
 
@@ -553,35 +614,10 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order)
 			panic("out of memory. panic_on_oom is selected\n");
 		/* Fall-through */
 	case CONSTRAINT_CPUSET:
-		if (sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task) {
-			oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, points, NULL,
-					"Out of memory (oom_kill_allocating_task)");
-			break;
-		}
-retry:
-		/*
-		 * Rambo mode: Shoot down a process and hope it solves whatever
-		 * issues we may have.
-		 */
-		p = select_bad_process(&points, NULL);
-
-		if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
-			goto out;
-
-		/* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */
-		if (!p) {
-			read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
-			panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
-		}
-
-		if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, order, points, NULL,
-				     "Out of memory"))
-			goto retry;
-
+		__out_of_memory(gfp_mask, order);
 		break;
 	}
 
-out:
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 
 	/*