[El-errata] Enterprise Linux Release 4 Update 7 for x86 (32 bit) , x86_64 (64 Bit) and Itanium (ia64) architectures
Errata Announcements for Enterprise Linux
el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue Aug 5 11:23:59 PDT 2008
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
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Fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool [orabug
5931647].
*
Fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT
[orabug 6845794].
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Fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc [orabug 5486128].
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Fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds [orabug 5760648].
*
Backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread [orabug
6125546].
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netrx/netpoll race avoidance [orabug 6143381].
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Fix guest spinning in xen [orabug 7004010].
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Fix serial port lock recursion [orabug 6761872].
*
Fix elf_core_dump [XEN] [orabug 6995928].
* Revert patch 12346/12364 for rh bugz 435280 [orabug 7240271].
Fixes/Additions from upstream distribution provider
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Added IPv6 for iSCSI.
*
Added OFED 1.3.
*
Added the aide (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) package
to allow file system integrity testing.
*
Added PV drivers for HVM guests.
*
Added Intel ICH10 SATA, USB, HD Audio and I2C(SMBUS).
*
Updated NMI infrastructure to 2.6.25.
*
Implemented udp_poll() to reduce likelihood of false positive
return from select().
*
apicid now allowed to be 8-bit on i386.
*
Disabled irqs in core sysrq code for i386.
*
Built PowerNow-k8 as module for x86_64.
*
Added /dev/msr[0-n] device files for x86_64.
*
64-bit direct memory access (DMA) is now supported on the AMD ATI
SB700.
*
The PCI device IDs necessary for supporting Intel ICH10 have been
added.
*
Added support for password hashing using the SHA-256 and SHA-512.
*
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:
o
2 = 500Hz
o
4 = 250Hz
o
10 = 100Hz
*
iostat now outputs statistics regarding the status and I/O
performance of partitions.
*
I/O accounting now uses ru_inblock and ru_outblock to provide more
comprehensive core statistics.
*
The total number of pagecache pages are now included in the ouput
of show_mem().
*
The O_ATOMICLOOKUP flag is no longer supported. The bit normally
used by O_ATOMICLOOKUP is used by O_CLOEXEC flag.
*
The process limit information to is exported to
/proc/[PID]/limits. [PID] is process id of the process.
*
The parameter TCP_RTO_MIN is now a configurable parameter (maximum
configurable value 3000 milliseconds). This parameter can be
configured through ip route.
*
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.
*
NFS can be restricted to write to low memory by setting
/proc/sys/vm/nfs-writeback-lowmem-only to 1 (default value 0).
*
/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.
*
Updated CIFS is to version 1.50c.
*
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.
The following memory types are supported:
o
bit 0 — anonymous private memory
o
bit 1 — anonymous shared memory
o
bit 2 — file-backed private memory
o
bit 3 — file-backed shared memory
*
Oprofile now supports event-based profiling on Greyhound hardware.
*
Added support for AMD ATI SB800 SATA controller.
*
Added support for AMD ATI SB600 and SB700 SATA controllers that
use the 40-pin IDE cable.
*
Network Driver Updates:
o
Updated ixgbe driver (Intel 82598 10Gb Ethernet Controller).
o
Updated bnx2x driver to support network adapters on bcm5710
chipset.
o
Updated bnx2 driver to version 1.6.9 which added support for
Broadcom 5709 chipset.
o
Updated cxgb3 driver to support new Chelsio 10G Ethernet
Controller and OFED.
o
Updated Realtek driver to support for Realtek RTL8111/8168
PCI-Express network interface card.
o
Updated bonding driver to added MAC-based failover support.
o
Updated aacraid driver to version 1.1.5-2455.
o
Updated e1000 driver to support alternate MAC address.
o
Updated e1000e driver to support ICH9m and 82574L Shelter
Island network interface cards.
o
Updated igb driver to upstream version 1.0.8-k2 which added
support for 82575EB chipset.
o
Updated s2io driver to 2.0.25.1 which include support for
Neterion Xframe-II 10GbE network adapter.
o
Updated tg3 driver to upstream version 3.86.
o Updated forcedeth driver to upstream version 0.61 which
included support for MCP73, MCP77 and MCP79 chipsets.
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Storage Driver Updates:
o
Updated qla4xxx driver version string to 5.01.02-d1.
o
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.
o
Updated qla3xxx driver to version 2.03.00-k4-rhel4.7-01.
o
Updated CCISS driver to version 3.6.20-RH1 which include
support for upcoming SAS/SATA controllers.
o
Updated mpt fusion driver to version 3-12-19-00.
o
Updated lpfc driver to version 8.0.16.40.
o
Updated megaraid_sas driver to version 3.18 which include
support for LSI 1078 chipsets running in MegaRAID mode.
o
Updated stex driver to 3.6.0101.2.
o
Updated the arcmsr driver to version 1.20.00.15.rh which
included support for ARC1200, ARC1201, and ARC1202 SATA
RAIL adapters.
o
Updated dm-multipath to added hp handler support for HP
active/passive array.
o
Added ibm blackrock controller support to megaraid driver.
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Miscellaneous Driver Updates:
o
Added edac_i5000 driver support for Intel 5000 chipsets.
o
Added edac_i3000 driver support for Intel 3000 3010 chipsets.
o
Added Tolapai's cpu cache info, updated i2c-i801 driver to
support Tolapai, and updated pci_ids to include Tolapai SATA
support.
o
Added i2c_piix4 module on x86_64 to support AMD ATI SB600
700 800.
o
Updated wacom driver to added tablet support for cintiq
20wsx, intuos3 4x6, intuos3 12x19 and intuos3 12x12.
o
Updated sata_svw driver to support Broadcom HT1100 chipset.
o
Updated libata to un-blacklist Hitachi drives to enable
Native Command Queueing (NCQ).
o
Updated ide driver to introduce module command line option
to disable ide drivers. kernel PCI module parameter can be
set to ide=dislable.
o Updated psmouse to added support for cortps protocol.
_*Software Accessibility*_
All packages are available via ULN (http://linux.oracle.com).
Installable binary and source ISO images for x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 bit) will be available at http://edelivery.oracle.com 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 http://linux.oracle.com
Thank you
Sincerely,
Enterprise Linux Team
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