Distribution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Description: EL4 U5 Production Kernel Release
Packager: jsobecki
Disposition: Release

Files

MD5SUMS  
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-sourcecode-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL.x86_64.rpm  
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL-1.2.9-2.el4.x86_64.rpm  
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-2.el4.x86_64.rpm  
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-2.el4.x86_64.rpm  
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-2.el4.x86_64.rpm  
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL-2.0.5-2.el4.x86_64.rpm  
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-2.el4.x86_64.rpm  
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-2.el4.x86_64.rpm  
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-2.el4.x86_64.rpm  
oracleasm-support-2.1.2-1.el4.x86_64.rpm  
oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el4.x86_64.rpm  

Bugs Fixed

Oracle BUG 7566319 Enhance shrink_zone patch to survive 100% swap util
Oracle BUG 6110605 Only report lost ticks if booted with report_lost_ticks

Bugs Tested

Details

Kernel 2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL changelog:

* Mon Dec 08 2008 John Sobecki  [2.6.9-78.0.8.8.1.EL]
- update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John Sobecki, Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [ORABUG 7566319]
- backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki) [ORABUG 6110605]

* Wed Nov 19 2008 Srinivas Maturi  [2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL]
- fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John Sobecki)
  [orabug 5931647]
- fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT (Olaf Kirch)
    [orabug 6845794]
- fix  enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc (Zach Brown) [orabug 5486128]
- fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds (Zach Brown) [orabug 5760648]
- backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
      [orabug 6125546]
- netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
- fix guest spinning in xen (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7004010]
- fix serial port lock recursion (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6761872]
- [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]
- fix in nfs_attribute_timeout() (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 7378108]
- [vm] Fix hang in shrink_zone for direct reclaim threads under heavy swapping
     load condition (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839]
- use lfence instead of cpuid instruction to implement memory barriers
	  (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7452412]
- add netpoll support to xen netfront (Tina Yang) [orabz 7261]