diff --git a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
index 5eecab1a84efd3430deab218698ab3dab91c0e6a..0c4132dd3507a0b62b3c40c2fc6fd4065a325262 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long mmcsr,
 	const struct exception_table_entry *fixup;
 	int fault, si_code = SEGV_MAPERR;
 	siginfo_t info;
+	unsigned int flags = (FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE |
+			      (cause > 0 ? FAULT_FLAG_WRITE : 0));
 
 	/* As of EV6, a load into $31/$f31 is a prefetch, and never faults
 	   (or is suppressed by the PALcode).  Support that for older CPUs
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long mmcsr,
 		goto vmalloc_fault;
 #endif
 
+retry:
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	vma = find_vma(mm, address);
 	if (!vma)
@@ -144,8 +147,11 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long mmcsr,
 	/* If for any reason at all we couldn't handle the fault,
 	   make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo
 	   the fault.  */
-	fault = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, cause > 0 ? FAULT_FLAG_WRITE : 0);
-	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	fault = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, flags);
+
+	if ((fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) && fatal_signal_pending(current))
+		return;
+
 	if (unlikely(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR)) {
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM)
 			goto out_of_memory;
@@ -153,10 +159,26 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long mmcsr,
 			goto do_sigbus;
 		BUG();
 	}
-	if (fault & VM_FAULT_MAJOR)
-		current->maj_flt++;
-	else
-		current->min_flt++;
+
+	if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) {
+		if (fault & VM_FAULT_MAJOR)
+			current->maj_flt++;
+		else
+			current->min_flt++;
+		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
+			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
+
+			 /* No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would
+			 * have already released it in __lock_page_or_retry
+			 * in mm/filemap.c.
+			 */
+
+			goto retry;
+		}
+	}
+
+	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
 	return;
 
 	/* Something tried to access memory that isn't in our memory map.
@@ -186,12 +208,14 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long mmcsr,
 	/* 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:
+	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	if (!user_mode(regs))
 		goto no_context;
 	pagefault_out_of_memory();
 	return;
 
  do_sigbus:
+	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	/* Send a sigbus, regardless of whether we were in kernel
 	   or user mode.  */
 	info.si_signo = SIGBUS;