diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 0e81eb5f0ae..fc75f34ba60 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2351,13 +2351,19 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
 				gfp_t gfp_mask, enum charge_type ctype)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *mem = NULL;
-	struct page_cgroup *pc;
-	int ret;
 	int page_size = PAGE_SIZE;
+	struct page_cgroup *pc;
+	bool oom = true;
+	int ret;
 
 	if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
 		page_size <<= compound_order(page);
 		VM_BUG_ON(!PageTransHuge(page));
+		/*
+		 * Never OOM-kill a process for a huge page.  The
+		 * fault handler will fall back to regular pages.
+		 */
+		oom = false;
 	}
 
 	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
@@ -2366,7 +2372,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
 		return 0;
 	prefetchw(pc);
 
-	ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(mm, gfp_mask, &mem, true, page_size);
+	ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(mm, gfp_mask, &mem, oom, page_size);
 	if (ret || !mem)
 		return ret;