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Changes

Since 042stab054.5:

• rebased on 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6 RHEL6.2 kernel (security, bug fixes, and enhancements, see below)
• [fuse] our fuse O_DIRECT support implementation has been removed, Red Hat added the support
• [megaraid_sas] mask off flags in the ioctl path to prevent memory scribble with older MegaCLI versions (#2240)
• [atl1] kernel panic fixed in case of DMA errors
• [scheduler] warning added if huge IPI latency is detected (debug for PSBM-11683)
• [timer] kernel panic in timer interrupt in kexec on nodes with buggy BIOS fixed (PSBM-12579)
• [memory reclaimer] possibility to use sync writeback in memory reclaimer, basically this should make nodes much more responsive on high memory pressure (PSBM-11683, #2188)
• [oom] OOM priorities configuration has been reworked completely (PSBM-12263)
• [cgroups] kernel panic in devcgroup_seq_read() has been fixed (PSBM-12254)
• [cpt] task credentials fix
• [sheduler stat] /proc/uptime should now show correct idle time inside CT (PCLIN-30774)
• [ploop/pcs] max disk-space preallocation on PCS is limited to 128MB now (independent of ploop cluster-block size)

See also

• RHSA-2012-0481