2.5.37: oom stress test crashes immediately

[Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>]

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I've added oom handling into the natsemi network driver, but testing it 
was tricky: I immediately ran into oopses.

The attached patch fails kmalloc and kmem_cache_alloc if

		(jiffies%HZ) < HZ/10

with a 5 minute guaranteed success, for the boot process.

Is that something the kernel should survive? Obviously the computer is 
unusable after the 5 minute grace period, but I didn't expect oopses.

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	Manfred

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--- 2.5/mm/slab.c	Sat Sep 21 17:03:15 2002
+++ build-2.5/mm/slab.c	Sun Sep 22 16:59:29 2002
@@ -1568,6 +1568,9 @@
  */
 void * kmem_cache_alloc (kmem_cache_t *cachep, int flags)
 {
+	if (jiffies > HZ*300 && (jiffies % HZ) < HZ/10)
+		return NULL;
+
 	return __kmem_cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
 }
 
@@ -1596,6 +1599,9 @@
 {
 	cache_sizes_t *csizep = cache_sizes;
 
+	if (jiffies > HZ*300 && (jiffies % HZ) < HZ/10)
+		return NULL;
+
 	for (; csizep->cs_size; csizep++) {
 		if (size > csizep->cs_size)
 			continue;