[El-errata] Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 11 for x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 Bit) architectures
Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux
el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue Sep 23 09:21:21 PDT 2014
Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 11 for x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 Bit) architectures.
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:
Bug Fixes (includes all Oracle bug fixes made to the Red Hat
Compatible Kernel across all releases)
* i386: fix MTRR code [orabug 15862649]
* [oprofile] x86, mm:Add_get_user_pages_fast() [orabug 14277030]
* [oprofile] export_get_user_pages_fast() function [orabug 14277030]
* [oprofile] x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support [orabug 14277030]
* [oprofile] Use KM_NMI slot for kmap_atomic [orabug 14277030]
* [oprofile] i386 add get_user_pages_fast support [orabug 14277030]
* [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats [orabug
14051367]
* [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for OCFS2 [orabug
13477763]
* [x86] fxi fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug
14038272]
* [mm] fix hugetlb page leak[orabug 12375075]
* fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch
* [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus
* [x86] fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param
* [scsi] Remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device [orabug 12342275]
* [char] ipmi: fix IPMI errors due to timing problems [orabug 12561346]
* [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices [orabug 12404566]
* [net] Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding [orabug 12740042]
* [fs] nfs: Fix_put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic [orabug
12687646]
* fix filp_close() race [orabug 10335998]
* make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919]
* [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change
[orabug 7556514]
* [net] Enable entropy for bnx2, bnx2x, e1000e, igb, ixgb, ixgbe,
ixgbevf[orabug 10315433]
* [net] Add xen pv netconsole support [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258]
* [mm] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events,
avoiding hands and evictions [orabug 6086839]
* [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization and also
be NUMA-aware [orabug 9245919]
* fix aacraid not to reset during kexec [orabug 8516042]
* [xen]PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure[orabug 9107465]
* [xen]PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown [orabug 9764220]
* Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest[orabug 9450615]
* Fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5 [orabug 6124033]
* [ipmi]Make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208]
* [ib]Fix memory corruption [orabug 9972346]
* [usb]usbcore: fix endpoint device creation [orabug 14795203]
* [usb]usbcore: fix refcount bug in endpoint removal [orabug 14795203]
*Driver Updates to Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel*
In close cooperation with hardware and storage vendors, several device
drivers have been updated by Oracle.
Storage drivers
* AACRAID driver updated to 1.2-0[30200]-ms
* Cisco FCoE HBA driver (fnic) updated to 1.5.0.45
* Emulex Fibre Channel HBA driver (lpfc) updated to 0:8.3.7.26.3p
* Intel C600 serieal attached SCSI (SAS) module (isci) updated to 1.0.0
* LSI Fusion-MPT base driver (mptbase) updated to 4.28.20.02
* LSI Fusion-MPT-ioctl driver (mptctl) updated to 4.28.20.02
* LSI Fusion-MPT Fibre Channel host driver (mptfc) updated to 4.28.20.02
* LSI Fusion-MPT IP over Fibre Channel driver (mptlan) updated to
4.28.20.02
* LSI Fusion-MPT SAS driver(mptsas)) updated to 4.28.20.02
* LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI host driver (mptscsih) updated to 4.28.20.02
* LSI Fusion-MPT SPI host driver (mptspi) updated to 4.28.20.02
* LSI Fusion-MPT SAS 2.0 driver (mpt2sas) updated to 17.00.01.00
* LSI Fusion-MPT SAS 3.0 driver (mpt3sas) updated to 3.00.00.00 added.
Supports up to 12 Gb/s host controllers
* MegaRAID SAS driver (megaraid_sas) updated to 06.600.18.00
* Qlogic iSCSI driver (qla4xxx) updated to 5.03.00.03.06.02-uek2.
Supports Open-iSCSI
* Xsigo Core services module driver (xscore) version 6.0.r7269 added.
Required by all Xsigo modules
* Xsigo Virtual HBA driver (xsvhba) verion 6.0.r7269 added
Network drivers
* Broadcom Tigon3 Ethernet adapter driver (tg3) updated to 3.131d.
* Emulex Blade Engine 2 10Gbps adapter driver (be2net) updated to
4.6.63.0u
* Intel Pro/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit network adapter driver (e1000e)
updated to 2.4.14
* Intel Gigabit Ethernet network adapter driver (igb) updated to 4.3.0
* 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)
* Intel 10 Gigabit PCI-Express network adapter driver (ixgbe) updated
to 3.15.1
* Qlogic 1/10 GbE Converged/Intelligent Ethernet Adapter driver
(qlcnic) updated to 5.2.43
* Xsigo Core Services module driver (xscore) version 6.0.r7269 added.
Required by all other Xsigo modules.
* Xsigo Virtual Ethernet driver (xve) added
* Xsigo Virtual NIC driver (xsvnic) version 6.0.r7269
*Software Accessibility*
All packages are available via ULN (http://linux.oracle.com <http://linux.oracle.com/>).
Installable binary and source ISO images will be available on theOracle Software Delivery Cloud <http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux> shortly.
If ISO images are needed before they are available on theOracle Software Delivery Cloud <http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux>, please request these via a My Oracle Support service request.
For more information please visithttp://linux.oracle.com
Thank you
Sincerely,
Oracle Linux Team
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