[CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

Mon Feb 11 10:49:30 UTC 2019
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 10:35:56PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote:
>    Hello,
>    I built 4.9.155 for both el6 and el7, you can test them here:
>    [1]https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.155-34.el6.x86_64.rpm
>    [2]https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.155-34.el7.x86_64.rpm
>    It works fine for me so far on el6, I'll update my pull request later on
>    GitHub with this version.
>    [root at node-tmp1 ~]# cat /proc/version
>    Linux version 4.9.155-34.el6.x86_64 ([3]mockbuild at build.aerisnetwork.net)
>    (gcc version 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Sun Feb 10
>    11:20:04 EST 2019

Great, thanks a lot! I'll give it a go.


-- Pasi

>    Karl
>
>    On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Pasi KÀrkkÀinen <[4]pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>      Hello everyone,
> 
>      Some of you might remember discussions earlier in 2017 (huh, long time
>      ago) on centos-virt list about Linux kernel tty/ldisc related bug, which
>      caused Xen dom0 kernel crashes for some people (and also more easy to
>      trigger crashes on other arches, like on hp pa-risc), but the bug was
>      difficult to reproduce for others/most people.
> 
>      Fix for this issue was merged to centos virt-sig Linux 4.9.48-29 kernel
>      earlier in 2017, but reverted/deleted in 4.9.75-30 due to problems with
>      the patch. The patch in question was also merged to upstream Linux
>      kernel, and later reverted there aswell.
> 
>      But now finally the issue has been resolved in upstream Linux, and the
>      patches have been already backported to Linux 4.9.152 longterm stable
>      kernel. Changelog:
>      [5]https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.152
>      You can find the tty/ldisc patches there.
> 
>      So I propose we build the latest 4.9.155 kernel for CentOS virt-sig for
>      centos6 and centos7.
> 
>      Thanks,
> 
>      -- Pasi
> 
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> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.155-34.el6.x86_64.rpm
>    2. https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.155-34.el7.x86_64.rpm
>    3. mailto:mockbuild at build.aerisnetwork.net
>    4. mailto:pasik at iki.fi
>    5. https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.152
>    6. mailto:CentOS-virt at centos.org
>    7. https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

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