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Changes[edit]

rebase to RHEL6.2 kernel-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6 kernel (security and bug fixes, see below)
Note that CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH is not set in this kernel
[fuse] fuse_flush() must wait till writeback is completed (PSBM-13697)
[fuse] synchronous close has been reimplemented
[fuse] file size handling has been corrected (PSBM-13216)
[ubc/net] potential infinite loop fixed in case network code
[pid namespaces] missing BSD_PROCESS_ACCT ifdef added. Required to compile kernel without CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT kernel option (#2273)
[fairsched] vmstat floating point operation fixed: idle scaling has been enhanced once again (PCLIN-30773)
[scheduler] idle time should not be accounted on "possible" but offline cpus
[mm] fix a corner case in memory reclaimer - guarantee to invoke OOM in case of no progress (PCLIN-30976)
[cpt] Fedora 17 CTs should not migrate to older kernels without mount namespaces support, other CTs should migrate fine (PSBM-13534)
[cpt] allow migration of tasks with SCHED_IDLE or SCHED_BATCH scheduler policy set (#2283)
[fuse] PCS special files i_size handling has been fixed in case writeback is enabled (PSBM-13636)
[pfcache] lockdep false-positive report fixed. The report is false-positive only in case we do not enable pfcache for pfcache cache.
[scheduler] compilation without CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS config option fixed (#2299)