diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index 0a6b283..3a8489a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -113,19 +113,6 @@
 #define MM_FAULT_CONTINUE	-1
 #define MM_FAULT_ERR(sig)	(sig)
 
-static int out_of_memory(struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
-	/*
-	 * We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that made
-	 * us unable to handle the page fault gracefully.
-	 */
-	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-	if (!user_mode(regs))
-		return MM_FAULT_ERR(SIGKILL);
-	pagefault_out_of_memory();
-	return MM_FAULT_RETURN;
-}
-
 static int do_sigbus(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address)
 {
 	siginfo_t info;
@@ -169,8 +156,18 @@
 		return MM_FAULT_CONTINUE;
 
 	/* Out of memory */
-	if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM)
-		return out_of_memory(regs);
+	if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM) {
+		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+
+		/*
+		 * We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that
+		 * made us unable to handle the page fault gracefully.
+		 */
+		if (!user_mode(regs))
+			return MM_FAULT_ERR(SIGKILL);
+		pagefault_out_of_memory();
+		return MM_FAULT_RETURN;
+	}
 
 	/* Bus error. x86 handles HWPOISON here, we'll add this if/when
 	 * we support the feature in HW