bnx2i Driver

• Fixed the issue with the bnx2i driver that caused a kernel panic when the iscsiadm command is used. (Bug 19726959)

DTrace

• Dtrace modules can now be loaded automatically. (Bug ID 19821254)

• If initial process grabs or creations fail, they no longer cause intermittent core dumps. (Bug ID 19679998)

• It was possible for an executed process to terminate abnormally if DTrace user-space tracing was already active.

• DTrace could lose track of the state of a process, or even become deadlocked, if the process called exec() while DTrace was inserting a breakpoint.

ext3

• The problem that caused file system corruption in a virtual machine when the virtual disks are configured as sparse files in an ext3 repository has been fixed. (Bug ID 19220057)

Hyper-V

• Reloading Hyper-V kernel modules using modprobe no longer results in a kernel panic.

• The Kdump kernel crash feature now works as expected in Oracle Linux virtual machines on Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts. (Bug 19727047)

• The hot-adding memory feature now works with Oracle Linux virtual machines. (Bug 19441989)

Microcode

• Systems with Haswell CPUs no longer experience lengthy boot delays due to microcode loading issues.

nvme Driver

• Fixed the bug with the nvme driver that caused hot-unplugged and re-plugged devices to show up with zero capacity and an erroneous detected capacity change message in /var/log/messages. (Bug 19566288)

OCFS2

• OCFS2 no longer hangs due to a wrong locking order. (Bug ID 19547845, 19249791)

• Enabling the global heartbeat no longer causes a node to reboot when the cluster configuration (cluster.conf) is inconsistent across the stack. (Bug 19549715)

qla2xxx Driver

• Fixed incorrectly returned PCI EEH busy warning message. (Bug ID 19916135)

Virtualization

• Increasing the number of virtual CPUs on a running PVM guest (xm vcpu-set) no longer causes a soft lockup. (Bug 19261720)

• Shutting down or rebooting a PVM guest no longer causes a kernel panic. (Bug 19803968)

XFS

• Turning project quotas off with xfs_quota no longer fails with an XFS_QUOTARM: Invalid argument error. (Bug ID 19815141)