diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 71305c6..494a081 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2120,6 +2120,14 @@
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * PM-freezer should be notified that there might be an OOM killer on
+	 * its way to kill and wake somebody up. This is too early and we might
+	 * end up not killing anything but false positives are acceptable.
+	 * See freeze_processes.
+	 */
+	note_oom_kill();
+
+	/*
 	 * Go through the zonelist yet one more time, keep very high watermark
 	 * here, this is only to catch a parallel oom killing, we must fail if
 	 * we're still under heavy pressure.