diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/fault.c b/arch/mips/mm/fault.c
index fa636fc6b7b9..55767ad9f00e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/fault.c
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ good_area:
 			goto bad_area;
 	}
 
-survive:
 	/*
 	 * If for any reason at all we couldn't handle the fault,
 	 * make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo
@@ -167,21 +166,13 @@ no_context:
 	       field,  regs->regs[31]);
 	die("Oops", regs);
 
-/*
- * 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 (is_global_init(tsk)) {
-		yield();
-		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-		goto survive;
-	}
-	printk("VM: killing process %s\n", tsk->comm);
-	if (user_mode(regs))
-		do_group_exit(SIGKILL);
-	goto no_context;
+	/*
+	 * 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).
+	 */
+	pagefault_out_of_memory();
+	return;
 
 do_sigbus:
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);