diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 26a8f8416b79895af81b2af3a202ddc3dc17b020..8df27401d29207683e3dd1ad1a0d0ac5b5508adb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 #include <linux/audit.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/nsproxy.h>
+#include <linux/oom.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 /* NOTE:
@@ -689,7 +690,8 @@ static ssize_t oom_adjust_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 	if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, count))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	oom_adjust = simple_strtol(buffer, &end, 0);
-	if ((oom_adjust < -16 || oom_adjust > 15) && oom_adjust != OOM_DISABLE)
+	if ((oom_adjust < OOM_ADJUST_MIN || oom_adjust > OOM_ADJUST_MAX) &&
+	     oom_adjust != OOM_DISABLE)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (*end == '\n')
 		end++;
diff --git a/include/linux/Kbuild b/include/linux/Kbuild
index 5114ff18101daee2fa78c13efab980cfaef09326..a1155a2beb32bb46dd3fc6ce66262c53a87c17f8 100644
--- a/include/linux/Kbuild
+++ b/include/linux/Kbuild
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ header-y += netrom.h
 header-y += nfs2.h
 header-y += nfs4_mount.h
 header-y += nfs_mount.h
+header-y += oom.h
 header-y += param.h
 header-y += pci_ids.h
 header-y += pci_regs.h
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 5a6068ff5556f5fcd62566988133aa25d7591de0..d538de9019652c851fc6afc281cc1eaa0969268e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1115,9 +1115,6 @@ int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long addr);
 #define in_gate_area(task, addr) ({(void)task; in_gate_area_no_task(addr);})
 #endif	/* __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA */
 
-/* /proc/<pid>/oom_adj set to -17 protects from the oom-killer */
-#define OOM_DISABLE -17
-
 int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *,
 					void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad76463629a019f189926334f16e5e8736228b73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#ifndef __INCLUDE_LINUX_OOM_H
+#define __INCLUDE_LINUX_OOM_H
+
+/* /proc/<pid>/oom_adj set to -17 protects from the oom-killer */
+#define OOM_DISABLE (-17)
+/* inclusive */
+#define OOM_ADJUST_MIN (-16)
+#define OOM_ADJUST_MAX 15
+
+#endif
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 20f41b082e16484a8c52aa04272bf4f30359593c..2e3ce3a928b97dd8eeb54b42fb6f363d15a6d2ae 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  *  kernel subsystems and hints as to where to find out what things do.
  */
 
+#include <linux/oom.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>