diff --git a/arch/nios2/mm/fault.c b/arch/nios2/mm/fault.c
index 0d231adfe576b897073c924e02211dea7b110285..0c9b6afe69e9094815cc1e73084422368b3a2e52 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/nios2/mm/fault.c
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long cause,
 		break;
 	}
 
-survive:
 	/*
 	 * If for any reason at all we couldn't handle the fault,
 	 * make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo
@@ -220,11 +219,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long cause,
  */
 out_of_memory:
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	if (is_global_init(tsk)) {
-		yield();
-		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-		goto survive;
-	}
 	if (!user_mode(regs))
 		goto no_context;
 	pagefault_out_of_memory();