[Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab080.11

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Mon Aug 19 15:42:11 EDT 2013


OpenVZ project released an updated RHEL6 based testing kernel. Read 
below for more information.

NOTE that this is a *testing* kernel, not yet recommended for production.


Changes
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(from 042stab080.9):
* vfs: fsync should acquire write_access (PCLIN-32011, PSBM-19460)
* proc: add Buffers: 0 field to meminfo (PSBM-19448)
* cpt: use task->real_parent while traversing processes tree (PCLIN-32020)
* ext4: set bg_itable_unused when resizing (#2701)
* ploop: prevent dangerous ploop-umount (PSBM-21474)
* drv/r8169: remove the obsolete and incorrect AMD workaround (PSBM-21048)
* ubc/oom: remove erroneous message from ub_oom_mm_dead()
* ubc/oom: bump oom generation if no victims found (PSBM-20158)
* ubc/oom: sanitize and ratelimit oom killer messages
* ve/net: initialize owner_env in build_skb (PSBM-21178)
* cpt: set beancounter unlimited at the beginning (PSBM-20158)
* fuse: do not flush files opened ro (PSBM-20562)
* ploop: check new size of block device on ioctl(GROW) (PSBM-21027)
* ploop: report holes in pio_direct (v2) (PSBM-20770)
* ubc: fix lockedpages leak after mapping special files
* ubc: leak beancounters after resource counters underflows
* ubc: do not break beancounter percpu precharges
* ubc: disable percpu precharges before usage (PCLIN-32012)
* ubc: hide held and maxheld of dummy resources
* ubc: reuse of of dummy resources for shadow pages


Download
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http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6-testing/042stab080.11


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   OpenVZ team


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