[Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab073.3

[Kir Kolyshkin]

OpenVZ project has 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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Since 042stab072.10:
* [net/tg3] kernel panic when netconsole is using (PCLIN-31420)
* [mm/vswap] kernel panic in handle_pte_fault() due to do_vswap_page() 
race with reclaimer (OVZ 2491)
* [vzquota/nfs] nfs client quota access to inode reserved space is 
protected by inode lock, preventing possible races
* [sched] do not throttle on cond_resched(), preventing one more case of 
possible priority inversion (PSBM-15441)
* [cgroup] calling release agent for already dead khelper caused a 
warning. This could happened if Fedora 18 CT is stopped with "--fast". 
(PSBM-17915)
* [sched] running tasks could be throttled and never unthrottled thus 
causing random node hangs. (PSBM-17658)
* [cgroup] added possibility to define the CT0 minimal cpu units in %% 
of all units assigned by all CTs on the Node (min_shares_pct)
* [fence-watchdog] kernel fencing watchgod is implemented.
* [fence-watchdog] The ability to choose, which action to perform in 
case of timeout (PSBM-13631)
* [proc] several issues on error paths have been fixed in 
proc_fill_super() (PSBM-17869)
* [fuse] background requests accounting has been fixed (PSBM-18114)
* [sched] possible node lockups have been fixed by correcting throttling 
algorithm (PCLIN-31507)
* [sched] the number of context switches should be reported correctly 
inside a CT in /proc/stat (PSBM-18113)
* [sched] the number of processes should be reported correctly inside a 
CT in /proc/stat (PSBM-18113)


Download
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http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6-testing/042stab073.3


Bug reporting
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   OpenVZ team