[Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab056.2
Kir Kolyshkin
kir at openvz.org
Tue May 22 06:00:33 EDT 2012
OpenVZ project has released a new RHEL6 based testing kernel. Read below
for more information. Everyone using this kernel branch is advised to
upgrade.
NOTE this is a *testing* kernel, not recommended for production.
Changes
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(since 042stab055.11):
* [ploop] fix handling preallocated space on truncate
* [ploop] avoid overflow of 'long' in ploop_bd_full (#2249)
* [ploop] update mtime if ploop image is mounted rw
* [cpt] cleanup: unneeded check for PF_EXIT_RESTART removed (#2266)
* [ext4] [major, performance] possibility to submit big BIOs has been added
** enabled by default, disable by setting
/sys/fs/ext4/features/batched_writeback to 0.
* [ext4] fdatasync optimization feature switch has been added
** disable by setting /sys/fs/ext4/features/optimize_fsync to 0
* [fuse] fuse_get_context()->pid has been virtualized (#2245)
* [fuse] [major] kaio support has been added
* [sysrq] add sysrq-a, move sched-debug from sysrq-t to it
* [sysctl] Add kernel.hung_task_verbosity sysctl
* [ipc] allow mqueue fs to be mounted in container
* [bridge] put brmark check code under CONFIG_BRIDGE
* [cpt] check/fix negative hrtimer expires on nanosleep futex_wait rst
* [fuse] show active requests, open files, connection info in fusectl files
* [fuse] fix handling IO errors
* [fuse] don't leave a page locked in case of write_being error
* [sched] make CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP work with CONFIG_PREEMPT off
* [netdev] simplify dev_hard_start_xmit
* [uevent] send events in correct order according to seqnum
Download
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http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6-testing/042stab056.2
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