[CentOS] detect agfl count corruption and reset agfl

Mon Mar 25 15:43:03 UTC 2019
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 5:04 AM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/25/19 4:44 AM, Richard Flack wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > My apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, but I was
> > wondering if anyone had any information on whether or not the following
> > patch has or will make its way into the CentOS Kernel?
> >
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10283095/

> 2. Kernel in the AltArch tree .. We have to use a different kernel for
> armhfp, and we also build it for other CentOS arches .. it lives at:
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/kernel/
>
> This kernel is based on a kernel.org LTS kernel (currently 4.14.x) and
> if that patch gets rolled into the LTS stream, it will be in our kernels
> there.
>
> 3. Experimential kernel in the AltArch tree .. this is a newer LTS
> kernel (which we will use in future armhfp releases .. it is currently
> based on 4.19.x LTS kernel.org kernel.  This one will replace the 4.14
> kernel in the 7.7.x release whenever that happens.  If that patch makes
> it into 4.19.x LTS at kernel.org then it will be in this kernel too.
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/

The patch is commit a27ba2607e60312554cbcd43fc660b2c7f29dc9c upstream
(kernel.org). It was applied to kernel 4.16 and backported to 4.14 (
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/4/184 ). Therefore both CentOS kernels
4.14 and 4.19 have that patch.

Akemi