Bug Fix Advisory kernel bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2009:1547-1
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-11-03
Last updated on: 2009-11-03
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2.z server)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated kernel packages that resolve several issues are now available.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of the Linux
operating system.

These updated kernel packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

* when a process attempted to read from a page that had first been accessed
by writing to part of it (via write(2)), the NFS client needed to flush the
modified portion of the page out to the server, and then read the entire
page back in. This flush caused performance issues. (BZ#521242)

* on an AMD64 or Intel 64 system with greater than 4GB of RAM, resuming
operation after a suspending to RAM occasionally caused a kernel panic.
This has been fixed with this update. (BZ#522737)

Note: the system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these
issues.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2.z server)

IA-32:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i686.rpm     b69308fe8956367c57f4a0d8c564ae6b
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i686.rpm     d8ff69ac54ddce2375b4a2d71deef161
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i686.rpm     5af6af351358f0c28d3b067ec1873fc8
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i686.rpm     705b75186fa2e27ccbabe61afc9b446c
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i686.rpm     bf0ff4805a2167fa61b888d86d136c3e
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i686.rpm     db3eb7010a5d74656f50dab42e34e92d
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.noarch.rpm     ee0c94f478fe2d946bbc17241307f51e
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i386.rpm     7cdaa7b1efe191b0c1ed2a42b1c285dd
kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i686.rpm     b5fac4248fbdc4dca6ae378fac2bad47
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.i686.rpm     c93ae6dbdcc2b919dc7902ef72ac066e
 
IA-64:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ia64.rpm     1ee3679ba9c67d9be79d39d1f97c4b0c
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ia64.rpm     986c0b04cf3dcc6d754fd02016347060
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ia64.rpm     941f25da1f02aaa1c5c74ff10446c136
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ia64.rpm     97fb5ed5aad7630f1071842cf1cbb124
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.noarch.rpm     ee0c94f478fe2d946bbc17241307f51e
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ia64.rpm     91bcb339a9ca0c6cdda8fdcae0fe0975
kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ia64.rpm     868b0d07c36b3a300f62274377eeec96
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ia64.rpm     97309e21e63637d5d42cac612b7506f6
 
PPC:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ppc64.rpm     8d87eb234c19381d45c69aba55bb683a
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ppc64.rpm     4e2006c440c6ecd505d9d8e1f214e134
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ppc64.rpm     7f1d37988fd3573ba3868174327f8d06
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ppc64.rpm     728df8cc8477e597c2cf28c9077ed119
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.noarch.rpm     ee0c94f478fe2d946bbc17241307f51e
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ppc.rpm     72cd0e940d4d9a8c74f8fe16c5ab90b1
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ppc64.rpm     f739e2eeed6b0e26e4ad25464c6a445c
kernel-kdump-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ppc64.rpm     cf476cc091e7a23ca3b8bf9583fa5833
kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.ppc64.rpm     58ebe7bacfc7eaa5bab1313054e25a69
 
s390x:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.s390x.rpm     769a6f44d6259f2dbfb80c760fc2343e
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.s390x.rpm     ecad8aae50867ac606b7cbbb9dc82db1
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.s390x.rpm     7aca8ac4b843082502d21a4700507b18
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.s390x.rpm     835110e158ffbc05dfefb388fb23e41c
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.noarch.rpm     ee0c94f478fe2d946bbc17241307f51e
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.s390x.rpm     b6e086b71b8e057b54f0f6d9e31d8afb
kernel-kdump-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.s390x.rpm     01057f5dfa1baec14825955902377deb
kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.s390x.rpm     f3a5828d650c0b30b97bf4ac7d04e8dc
 
x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.x86_64.rpm     b8c871e3102974b20f5806030fcf6db8
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.x86_64.rpm     0b8ed1d6d767b777be1fc19776c93f85
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.x86_64.rpm     837fc3c7e6b2310c6a763bc735c56600
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.x86_64.rpm     2966b55377245c2cd178972ee8489328
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.noarch.rpm     ee0c94f478fe2d946bbc17241307f51e
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.x86_64.rpm     fd09dd1df5c12b011d21d7b00c01022a
kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.x86_64.rpm     edce58e447e1f417279797daadf70045
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.29.el5.x86_64.rpm     c1063adaff64dd7114f3f72ca546032c
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

521242 - Read/Write NFS I/O performance degraded by FLUSH_STABLE page flushing [rhel-5.2.z]
522737 - Suspend to disk fails with >4GB of RAM [rhel-5.2.z]



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