diff -urNp ref/include/linux/sched.h 2.4.20pre5aa1/include/linux/sched.h
--- ref/include/linux/sched.h	Fri Aug 30 01:55:20 2002
+++ 2.4.20pre5aa1/include/linux/sched.h	Fri Aug 30 01:55:22 2002
@@ -481,7 +481,6 @@ struct task_struct {
 #define PF_DUMPCORE	0x00000200	/* dumped core */
 #define PF_SIGNALED	0x00000400	/* killed by a signal */
 #define PF_MEMALLOC	0x00000800	/* Allocating memory */
-#define PF_MEMDIE	0x00001000	/* Killed for out-of-memory */
 #define PF_FREE_PAGES	0x00002000	/* per process page freeing */
 #define PF_NOIO		0x00004000	/* avoid generating further I/O */
 
diff -urNp ref/mm/oom_kill.c 2.4.20pre5aa1/mm/oom_kill.c
--- ref/mm/oom_kill.c	Fri Aug 30 01:55:20 2002
+++ 2.4.20pre5aa1/mm/oom_kill.c	Fri Aug 30 01:55:22 2002
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ void oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p
 	 * exit() and clear out its resources quickly...
 	 */
 	p->time_slice = HZ;
-	p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_MEMDIE;
 
 	/* This process has hardware access, be more careful. */
 	if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
diff -urNp ref/mm/page_alloc.c 2.4.20pre5aa1/mm/page_alloc.c
--- ref/mm/page_alloc.c	Fri Aug 30 01:55:20 2002
+++ 2.4.20pre5aa1/mm/page_alloc.c	Fri Aug 30 01:55:22 2002
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ struct page * __alloc_pages(unsigned int
 	/* here we're in the low on memory slow path */
 
 rebalance:
-	if (current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC | PF_MEMDIE)) {
+	if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) {
 		zone = zonelist->zones;
 		for (;;) {
 			zone_t *z = *(zone++);