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<pre>Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Enterprise Linux Release 4 Update 7 for x86 (32 bit), x86_64 (64 Bit) and Itanium (ia64) architectures.
This update includes the following kernel/driver changes:
Bug fixes added by Oracle
</pre>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool
[orabug
5931647].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with
EFAULT
[orabug 6845794].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc [orabug
5486128].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds [orabug 5760648].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread
[orabug
6125546].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>netrx/netpoll race avoidance [orabug 6143381].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Fix guest spinning in xen [orabug 7004010].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Fix serial port lock recursion [orabug 6761872].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Fix elf_core_dump [XEN] [orabug 6995928].</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><tt> Revert patch 12346/12364 for rh bugz 435280 [orabug 7240271].</tt></li>
</ul>
<pre>Fixes/Additions from upstream distribution provider<tt>
</tt></pre>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added IPv6 for iSCSI.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added OFED 1.3.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added the aide (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment)
package to allow file system integrity testing.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added PV drivers for HVM guests.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added Intel ICH10 SATA, USB, HD Audio and I2C(SMBUS).</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated NMI infrastructure to 2.6.25.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Implemented udp_poll() to reduce likelihood of false
positive
return from select().</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>apicid now allowed to be 8-bit on i386.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Disabled irqs in core sysrq code for i386.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Built PowerNow-k8 as module for x86_64.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added /dev/msr[0-n] device files for x86_64.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>64-bit direct memory access (DMA) is now supported on the
AMD
ATI SB700.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>The PCI device IDs necessary for supporting Intel ICH10 have
been added.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added support for password hashing using the SHA-256 and
SHA-512.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added the divider=[value] option is a kernel command-line
parameter that allows you to adjust the system clock rate. Useful
values for the standard 1000Hz clock are:</tt></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>2 = 500Hz</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>4 = 250Hz</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>10 = 100Hz</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>iostat now outputs statistics regarding the status and I/O
performance of partitions.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>I/O accounting now uses ru_inblock and ru_outblock to
provide
more comprehensive core statistics.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>The total number of pagecache pages are now included in the
ouput of show_mem().</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>The O_ATOMICLOOKUP flag is no longer supported. The bit
normally
used by O_ATOMICLOOKUP is used by O_CLOEXEC flag. </tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>The process limit information to is exported to
/proc/[PID]/limits. [PID] is process id of the process.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>The parameter TCP_RTO_MIN is now a configurable parameter
(maximum configurable value 3000 milliseconds). This parameter can be
configured through ip route.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>kernel parameter nfs.enable_ino64= can be used to
enable/disable
32-bit inode numbers. If set to 0, the NFS client will return 32-bit
inode numbers for readdir() and stat() system calls. By deafult this
parameter is set to return 64-bit inode numbers.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>NFS can be restricted to write to low memory by setting
/proc/sys/vm/nfs-writeback-lowmem-only to 1 (default value 0).</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>/proc/sys/vm/write-mapped can be set to 1 to include mapped
file
pages in dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio calculations (default
value 0). Setting /proc/sys/vm/write-mapped to 1 allows you to
implement faster NFS read performance, however, that doing so exposes
you to out-of-memory risks.</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated CIFS is to version 1.50c. </tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added support for core dump masking. This allows a core dump
process to skip the shared memory segments of a process when creating a
core dump file. This feature also allows you to select whether or not
to dump anonymous shared memory for each process. You can use
/proc/[pid]/coredump_filter to specify which memory segments of the
[pid] process is dumped. coredump_filter is a bitmask of memory types.
If a bitmask is set, memory segments of the corresponding memory type
are dumped.<br>
<br>
The following memory types are supported:</tt> </p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>bit 0 — anonymous private memory</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>bit 1 — anonymous shared memory</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>bit 2 — file-backed private memory</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>bit 3 — file-backed shared memory</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Oprofile now supports event-based profiling on Greyhound
hardware.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Added support for AMD ATI SB800 SATA controller.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Added support for AMD ATI SB600 and SB700 SATA controllers
that
use the 40-pin IDE cable.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Network Driver Updates:</tt></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated ixgbe driver (Intel 82598 10Gb Ethernet
Controller).</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated bnx2x driver to support network adapters on
bcm5710 chipset.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated bnx2 driver to version 1.6.9 which added support
for
Broadcom 5709 chipset.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated cxgb3 driver to support new Chelsio 10G Ethernet
Controller and OFED. </tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated Realtek driver to support for Realtek
RTL8111/8168
PCI-Express network interface card. </tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated bonding driver to added MAC-based failover
support. </tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated aacraid driver to version 1.1.5-2455.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated e1000 driver to support alternate MAC address.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated e1000e driver to support ICH9m and 82574L
Shelter
Island network interface cards. </tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated igb driver to upstream version 1.0.8-k2 which
added
support for 82575EB chipset. </tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated s2io driver to 2.0.25.1 which include support
for
Neterion Xframe-II 10GbE network adapter. </tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated tg3 driver to upstream version 3.86. </tt></p>
</li>
<li><tt> Updated forcedeth driver to upstream version 0.61 which
included support for MCP73, MCP77 and MCP79 chipsets.</tt></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Storage Driver Updates: </tt></p>
</li>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated qla4xxx driver version string to 5.01.02-d1. </tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated qla2xxx driver to version 8.02.00-k5 which added
support for EHAFT(QLogic host bus adapter mechanism that provides
activity information about fibre channel devices) and 8GB fibre-channel
devices.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated qla3xxx driver to version 2.03.00-k4-rhel4.7-01.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated CCISS driver to version 3.6.20-RH1 which include
support for upcoming SAS/SATA controllers. </tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated mpt fusion driver to version 3-12-19-00.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated lpfc driver to version 8.0.16.40.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated megaraid_sas driver to version 3.18 which include
support for LSI 1078 chipsets running in MegaRAID mode.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated stex driver to 3.6.0101.2.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated the arcmsr driver to version 1.20.00.15.rh which
included support for ARC1200, ARC1201, and ARC1202 SATA RAIL
adapters.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt> Updated dm-multipath to added hp handler support for HP
active/passive array.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Added ibm blackrock controller support to megaraid driver.
</tt></p>
</li>
</ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Miscellaneous Driver Updates:</tt></p>
</li>
<ul>
<li>
<p><tt>Added edac_i5000 driver support for Intel 5000 chipsets.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Added edac_i3000 driver support for Intel 3000 3010
chipsets.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Added Tolapai's cpu cache info, updated i2c-i801 driver to
support Tolapai, and updated pci_ids to include Tolapai SATA support.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Added i2c_piix4 module on x86_64 to support AMD ATI
SB600 700 800.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated wacom driver to added tablet support for cintiq
20wsx, intuos3 4x6, intuos3 12x19 and intuos3 12x12.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated sata_svw driver to support Broadcom HT1100 chipset.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated libata to un-blacklist Hitachi drives to enable
Native
Command Queueing (NCQ).</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt>Updated ide driver to introduce module command line option
to
disable ide drivers. kernel PCI module parameter can be set to
ide=dislable.</tt></p>
</li>
<li><tt> Updated psmouse to added support for cortps protocol.</tt></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<pre>
<u><b>Software Accessibility</b></u>
All packages are available via ULN (<a linkindex="6"
href="http://linux.oracle.com">http://linux.oracle.com</a>).
Installable binary and source ISO images for x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 bit) will be available at <a
linkindex="7" href="http://edelivery.oracle.com">http://edelivery.oracle.com</a> shortly.
If ISO images are needed before they are available on eDelivery, please request these via a Metalink service request.
For more information please visit <a linkindex="8"
href="http://linux.oracle.com">http://linux.oracle.com</a>
Thank you
Sincerely,
Enterprise Linux Team</pre>
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