diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
index 7b2e31b1745a..6866e8126982 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
@@ -400,6 +400,11 @@ extern void mmu_notifier_synchronize(void);
 
 #else /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */
 
+static inline int mm_has_notifiers(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline void mmu_notifier_release(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 }
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 99736e026712..dee0f75c3013 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
 #include "internal.h"
@@ -494,6 +495,21 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 		goto unlock_oom;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If the mm has notifiers then we would need to invalidate them around
+	 * unmap_page_range and that is risky because notifiers can sleep and
+	 * what they do is basically undeterministic.  So let's have a short
+	 * sleep to give the oom victim some more time.
+	 * TODO: we really want to get rid of this ugly hack and make sure that
+	 * notifiers cannot block for unbounded amount of time and add
+	 * mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_{start,end} around unmap_page_range
+	 */
+	if (mm_has_notifiers(mm)) {
+		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+		schedule_timeout_idle(HZ);
+		goto unlock_oom;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * MMF_OOM_SKIP is set by exit_mmap when the OOM reaper can't
 	 * work on the mm anymore. The check for MMF_OOM_SKIP must run