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Oracle Linux 5.11 ships with following three sets of kernel packages
* Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.215.10.el5uek]
o Installed and booted by default
* Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.18-398.el5].
o Installed by default
* Red Hat compatible Kernel with bug fixes added by Oracle [kernel-2.6.18-398.0.0.0.1.el5]
o This kernel, available on x86 and x86_64, can only be installed manually.
This update includes the following kernel/driver changes:
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all Oracle bug fixes made to the Red Hat Compatible Kernel
across all releases)</tt></h4>
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<li><tt>i386: fix MTRR code [orabug 15862649]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[oprofile] x86, mm:Add_get_user_pages_fast() [orabug
14277030]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[oprofile] export_get_user_pages_fast() function [orabug
14277030]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[oprofile] x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support [orabug
14277030]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[oprofile] Use KM_NMI slot for kmap_atomic [orabug
14277030]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[oprofile] i386 add get_user_pages_fast support [orabug
14277030]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats
[orabug 14051367]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for OCFS2
[orabug 13477763]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[x86] fxi fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal
context [orabug 14038272]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[mm] fix hugetlb page leak[orabug 12375075]</tt></li>
<li><tt>fix ia64 build error due to
add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch</tt></li>
<li><tt>[x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32
vcpus</tt></li>
<li><tt>[x86] fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param</tt></li>
<li><tt>[scsi] Remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device
[orabug 12342275]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[char] ipmi: fix IPMI errors due to timing problems
[orabug 12561346]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices [orabug
12404566]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[net] Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding
[orabug 12740042]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[fs] nfs: Fix_put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic
[orabug 12687646]</tt></li>
<li><tt>fix filp_close() race [orabug 10335998]</tt></li>
<li><tt>make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory
reservation change [orabug 7556514]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[net] Enable entropy for bnx2, bnx2x, e1000e, igb, ixgb,
ixgbe, ixgbevf[orabug 10315433]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[net] Add xen pv netconsole support [orabug 6993043] [bz
7258]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[mm] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure
events, avoiding hands and evictions [orabug 6086839]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization
and also be NUMA-aware [orabug 9245919]</tt></li>
<li><tt>fix aacraid not to reset during kexec [orabug 8516042]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[xen]PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory
pressure[orabug 9107465]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[xen]PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown [orabug
9764220]</tt></li>
<li><tt>Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest[orabug 9450615]</tt></li>
<li><tt>Fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5
[orabug 6124033]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[ipmi]Make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug
9752208]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[ib]Fix memory corruption [orabug 9972346]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[usb]usbcore: fix endpoint device creation [orabug
14795203]</tt></li>
<li><tt>[usb]usbcore: fix refcount bug in endpoint removal [orabug
14795203]</tt></li>
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<p><big><tt><b>Driver Updates to Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel</b></tt></big><tt><br>
</tt> </p>
<tt> </tt>
<p><tt> In close cooperation with hardware and storage vendors,
several device drivers have been updated by Oracle.</tt></p>
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<li><tt>AACRAID driver updated to 1.2-0[30200]-ms</tt></li>
<li><tt>Cisco FCoE HBA driver (fnic) updated to 1.5.0.45</tt></li>
<li><tt>Emulex Fibre Channel HBA driver (lpfc) updated to
0:8.3.7.26.3p</tt></li>
<li><tt>Intel C600 serieal attached SCSI (SAS) module (isci)
updated to 1.0.0</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT base driver (mptbase) updated to 4.28.20.02</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT-ioctl driver (mptctl) updated to 4.28.20.02</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT Fibre Channel host driver (mptfc) updated
to 4.28.20.02</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT IP over Fibre Channel driver (mptlan)
updated to 4.28.20.02</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT SAS driver(mptsas)) updated to 4.28.20.02</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI host driver (mptscsih) updated to
4.28.20.02</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT SPI host driver (mptspi) updated to
4.28.20.02</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT SAS 2.0 driver (mpt2sas) updated to
17.00.01.00</tt></li>
<li><tt>LSI Fusion-MPT SAS 3.0 driver (mpt3sas) updated to
3.00.00.00 added. Supports up to 12 Gb/s host controllers</tt></li>
<li><tt>MegaRAID SAS driver (megaraid_sas) updated to 06.600.18.00</tt></li>
<li><tt>Qlogic iSCSI driver (qla4xxx) updated to
5.03.00.03.06.02-uek2. Supports Open-iSCSI</tt></li>
<li><tt>Xsigo Core services module driver (xscore) version
6.0.r7269 added. Required by all Xsigo modules</tt></li>
<li><tt>Xsigo Virtual HBA driver (xsvhba) verion 6.0.r7269 added</tt></li>
</ul>
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<li><tt>Broadcom Tigon3 Ethernet adapter driver (tg3) updated to
3.131d.</tt></li>
<li><tt>Emulex Blade Engine 2 10Gbps adapter driver (be2net)
updated to 4.6.63.0u</tt></li>
<li><tt>Intel Pro/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit network adapter driver
(e1000e) updated to 2.4.14</tt></li>
<li><tt>Intel Gigabit Ethernet network adapter driver (igb)
updated to 4.3.0</tt></li>
<li><tt>Intel Gigabit Linux driver (igbvf) updated to 2.3.2.
Provides 82576-based virtual funtion devices on kernels that
support Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)</tt></li>
<li><tt>Intel 10 Gigabit PCI-Express network adapter driver
(ixgbe) updated to 3.15.1</tt></li>
<li><tt>Qlogic 1/10 GbE Converged/Intelligent Ethernet Adapter
driver (qlcnic) updated to 5.2.43</tt></li>
<li><tt>Xsigo Core Services module driver (xscore) version
6.0.r7269 added. Required by all other Xsigo modules.</tt></li>
<li><tt>Xsigo Virtual Ethernet driver (xve) added</tt></li>
<li><tt>Xsigo Virtual NIC driver (xsvnic) version 6.0.r7269</tt></li>
</ul>
<tt><br>
</tt>
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All packages are available via ULN (<a href="http://linux.oracle.com/">http://linux.oracle.com</a>).
Installable binary and source ISO images will be available on the <a href="http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux">Oracle Software Delivery Cloud</a> shortly.
If ISO images are needed before they are available on the <a href="http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux">Oracle Software Delivery Cloud</a>, please request these via a My Oracle Support service request.
For more information please visit <a href="http://linux.oracle.com">http://linux.oracle.com</a>
Thank you
Sincerely,
Oracle Linux Team</pre>
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