[$] Averting excessive oopses

Even a single kernel oops is never a good thing; it is an indication that something hasgone badly wrong in the system somewhere and a straightforwardrecovery is not possible. But it seems that oopsing a large numberof times has the potential to be even worse. To head off problems thatmight result from repeated oopsing, thereis currently work afoot to put an upper limit on the number of times thatthe kernel can be allowed to oops before just giving up and rebooting.