Optional update for Linux kernel (k_athlon)
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SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4
Package: k_athlon
Release: 20030104
Obsoletes: none
This article applies to systems with the
k_athlon
kernel package installed, please use the appropriate kernel package if you are using a different kernel:- "Optional update for Linux kernel (k_deflt)" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/psdb/html/e741c49a7a354aaf0acc484e3bda77f0.html)
- "Optional update for Linux kernel (k_smp)" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/psdb/html/23acbbfccab362b6cd7e2cba558af990.html)
- "Optional update for Linux kernel (k_psmp)" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/psdb/html/89cbb8c9542349b3f46ebac697bc8b31.html)
- "Optional update for Linux kernel (k_debug)" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/psdb/html/6edb565aad1df66eb0fcd6b6c2aff18c.html)
rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz
Fixes
- Fix fractured block problem (implemented by adding blk-atomic feature).
- Add several performance and scalability improvements for SMP systems.
- Fix a longstanding TCP problem that can lead to hanging SSH sessions.
- Fix possible data exposure and data corruption caused by abusing
O_DIRECT
. - Prevent
statfs
overflow for huge NFS filesystems. - Enable support for more than 256 SCSI hard disks by default on SMP systems.
- Fix problem in
O_DIRECT
implementation when reading files with holes in it. - Fix possible lockup on full reiserfs when
blocksize
!=pagesize
. - Fix possible oops when trying to free pages in async-I/O.
- Fix longstanding off-by-one error in
keventd
initialization that can lead to system freeze. - Fix MD RAID1 oops when a disk has failed.
- Fix possible data loss on umount when the filesystem is mounted with "
data=journal
" option. - Prevent possible
ETXTBSY
errors. - Fix scheduler problem where an RT task can hang the system.
- Fix
O_DIRECT
for filesystems with a blocksize less than 4k. - Fix system crash when using bigpages under certain circumstances.
- Add workaround for AMD errata #56 for
768MPX
chipset. - Fix problem in SCSI midlayer that leads to inferior performance for some AIC7xxx adapters.
- Fix handling of Unisys ES7000 interrupt override for PCI range.
- Fix file mark handling bug in
osst
that breaks some backup programs. - Fix LVM major checking in XFS.
- xfs ACLs: return
ERANGE
instead ofE2BIG
if number of entries overflows.
- IBM ServeRaid driver downgraded to 5.11. Some machines seem to have problems when firmware version and driver version don't match (there is no firmware version 6.00 available yet). Use newer driver version 6.0.0 only on IA64..
- Update
cciss
driver to 2.4.42. - Update
megaraid
driver to 1.18e.
rpm -Uvh k_athlon.rpm mkinitrd
In case you are using
lilo
, please make sure that you also execute the commandlilo
after installing the update and running
mkinitrd
for the system to remain bootable.Finally, reboot the system with
shutdown -r now
to load the new kernel (replace "
now
" with the appropriate amount of time to allow local users to cleanly log out, for example "+5
" for five minutes.)Download Source Packages
Download the source code of the patches for maintained products.
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