When we get into a state where VM has ran out of memory, and it's time to
thwack a process, we should take out the entire process group, rather than
just one thread.

Tested on POWER5.

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index 03aeb3a..9afe871 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -392,8 +392,10 @@ out_of_memory:
                goto survive;
        }
        printk("VM: killing process %s\n", current->comm);
-       if (user_mode(regs))
+       if (user_mode(regs)) {
+               zap_other_threads(current);
                do_exit(SIGKILL);
+       }
        return SIGKILL;
 
 do_sigbus:


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