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I hit the following hung task when runing a OOM LTP test case with 4.1
kernel.

Call trace:
[<ffffffc000086a88>] __switch_to+0x74/0x8c
[<ffffffc000a1bae0>] __schedule+0x23c/0x7bc
[<ffffffc000a1c09c>] schedule+0x3c/0x94
[<ffffffc000a1eb84>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x214/0x350
[<ffffffc000a1e32c>] down_write+0x64/0x80
[<ffffffc00021f794>] __ksm_exit+0x90/0x19c
[<ffffffc0000be650>] mmput+0x118/0x11c
[<ffffffc0000c3ec4>] do_exit+0x2dc/0xa74
[<ffffffc0000c46f8>] do_group_exit+0x4c/0xe4
[<ffffffc0000d0f34>] get_signal+0x444/0x5e0
[<ffffffc000089fcc>] do_signal+0x1d8/0x450
[<ffffffc00008a35c>] do_notify_resume+0x70/0x78

The oom victim cannot terminate because it needs to take mmap_sem for
write while the lock is held by ksmd for read which loops in the page
allocator

ksm_do_scan
	scan_get_next_rmap_item
		down_read
		get_next_rmap_item
			alloc_rmap_item   #ksmd will loop permanently.
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