* version 1.8.0
* Support for kernels:
- 2.6.5-7.286 (SLES 9),
- 2.6.9-55.0.6.EL (RHEL 4),
- 2.6.16.46-0.14 (SLES 10),
- 2.6.18-8.1.14.EL5 (RHEL 5).
+ 2.6.5-7.287.3 (SLES 9),
+ 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL (RHEL 4),
+ 2.6.16.53-0.16 (SLES 10),
+ 2.6.18-8.1.15.EL5 (RHEL 5).
2.6.18.8 vanilla (kernel.org)
* Client support for unpatched kernels:
(see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (RHEL 4),
2.6.16 - 2.6.21 vanilla (kernel.org)
- * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.40.2-cfs1
+ * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.40.2-cfs4
* Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
+Severity : major
+Frequency : always
+Bugzilla : 14270
+Description: lfs find does not continue on file error
+Details : Continue other files processing when a file/dir is absent.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 11791
+Description: Inconsistent usage of lustre_pack_reply()
+Details : Standardize the usage of lustre_pack_reply() such that it
+ always generate a CERROR on failure.
+
+Severity : major
+Frequency : occasional
+Bugzilla : 13917
+Description: MDS hang or stay in waiting lock
+Details : If client receive lock with CBPENDING flag ldlm need send lock
+ cancel as separate rpc, to avoid situation when cancel request
+ can't processed due all i/o threads stay in wait lock.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13969
+Description: Update to RHEL5 kernel 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13874
+Description: Update to SLES10 SP1 kernel 2.6.16.53-0.16
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13889
+Description: Update to SLES9 kernel-2.6.5-7.287.3.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 14041
+Description: Update to RHEL4 latest kernel.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 13690
+Description: Build SLES10 patchless client fails
+Details : The configure was broken by run ./configure with
+ --with-linux-obj=.... argument for patchless client. When the
+ configure use --with-linux-obj, the LINUXINCLUDE= -Iinclude
+ can't search header adequately. Use absolute path such as
+ -I($LINUX)/include instead.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13888
+Description: interrupt oig_wait produce painc on resend.
+Details : brw_redo_request can be used for resend requests from ptlrpcd and
+ private set, and this produce situation when rq_ptlrpcd_data not
+ copyed to new allocated request and triggered LBUG on assert
+ req->rq_ptlrpcd_data != NULL. But this member used only for wakeup
+ ptlrpcd set if request is changed and can be safety changed to use
+ rq_set directly.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13497
+Description: LASSERT_{REQ,REP}SWAB macros are buggy
+Details : If SWAB_PARANOIA is disabled, the LASSERT_REQSWAB and
+ LASSERT_REPSWAB macros become no-ops, which is incorrect. Drop
+ these macros and replace them with their difinitions instead.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13521
+Description: Update kernel patches for SLES10 2.6.16.53-0.8.
+Details : Update which_patch & target file for SLES10 latest kernel.
+
+Bugzilla : 12411
+Description: Remove client patches from SLES 10 kernel.
+Details : This causes SLES 10 clients to behave as patchless clients
+ even on a Lustre-patched (server) kernel.
+
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 2262
Description: self-adjustable client's lru lists
Details : use adaptive algorithm for managing client cached locks lru
- lists according to current server load, other client's work
- pattern, memory activities, etc. Both, server and client
- side namespaces provide number of proc tunables for controlling
- things
+ lists according to current server load, other client's work
+ pattern, memory activities, etc. Both, server and client
+ side namespaces provide number of proc tunables for controlling
+ things
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 13641
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 12398
-Description: testing performance impact of enabling checksumming
-Details : enable checksum by default, allow --disable-checksum
- configure option and "-o nochecksum" mount option
+Description: enable data checksumming by default
+Details : enable checksum by default, allow --disable-checksum
+ configure option and "-o nochecksum" mount option. Checksums
+ can also be disabled at runtime via $LPROC/osc/*/checksum_pages.
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 11802
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 13304
Frequency : Always, for kernels after 2.6.16
-Description: Fix warning idr_remove called for id=.. which is not
- allocated.
+Description: Fix warning idr_remove called for id=.. which is not allocated.
Details : Last kernels save old s_dev before kill super and not allow
- to restore from callback - restore it before call kill_anon_super.
+ to restore from callback - restore it before call kill_anon_super.
Severity : minor
Bugzilla : 12948
Description: buffer overruns could theoretically occur
Details : llapi_semantic_traverse() modifies the "path" argument by
- appending values to the end of the origin string, and a
- overrun may occur. Adding buffer overrun check in liblustreapi.
+ appending values to the end of the origin string, and a
+ overrun may occur. Adding buffer overrun check in liblustreapi.
Severity : normal
-Bugzilla : 13730
-Description: client sometimes tried revalidate root dentry.
-Details : not revalidate dentry if it root dentry.
+Bugzilla : 13334
+Description: Fix error on 'ls .' at the top of the Lustre mount.
+Details : Don't revalidate dentry if it is a root dentry.
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 13518
Bugzilla : 13452
Description: Kernel config for 2.6.18-vanilla.
Details : Modify targets/2.6-vanilla.target.in.
- Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-i686.config.
- Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-i686-smp.config.
- Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-x86_64.config.
- Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-x86_64-smp.config.
+ Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-i686.config.
+ Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-i686-smp.config.
+ Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-x86_64.config.
+ Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-x86_64-smp.config.
Severity : major
Bugzilla : 11710
Description: improve handling recoverable errors
Details : if request processig with error which can be recoverable on server
- request should be resend, otherwise page released from cache and
- marked as error.
+ request should be resend, otherwise page released from cache and
+ marked as error.
Severity : critical
Bugzilla : 13751
Description: Kernel patches update for RHEL5 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.
Details : Modify target file & which_patch.
- A flaw was found in the IA32 system call emulation provided
- on AMD64 and Intel 64 platforms. An improperly validated 64-bit
- value could be stored in the %RAX register, which could trigger an
- out-of-bounds system call table access. An untrusted local user
- could exploit this flaw to run code in the kernel
- (ie a root privilege escalation). (CVE-2007-4573).
+ A flaw was found in the IA32 system call emulation provided
+ on AMD64 and Intel 64 platforms. An improperly validated 64-bit
+ value could be stored in the %RAX register, which could trigger an
+ out-of-bounds system call table access. An untrusted local user
+ could exploit this flaw to run code in the kernel
+ (ie a root privilege escalation). (CVE-2007-4573).
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 13093
+Description: O_DIRECT bypasses client statistics.
+Details : When running with O_DIRECT I/O, neither the client rpc_stats nor
+ read_ahead_stats were updated. copied the stats section from
+ osc_send_oap_rpc() into async_internal().
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13454
+Description: Add jbd statistics patch for RHEL5 and 2.6.18-vanilla
+
+Severity : minor
+Bugzilla : 13732
+Description: change order of libsysio includes
+Details : '#include sysio.h' should always come before '#include xtio.h'
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 11673
+Description: handle "serious error: objid * already exists" more gracefully
+Details : If LAST_ID value on disk is smaller than the objects existing in
+ the O/0/d* directories, it indicates disk corruption and causes an
+ LBUG(). If the object is 0-length, then we should use the existing
+ object. This will help to avoid a full fsck in most cases.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 13207
+Description: adapt the lustre_config script to support the upgrade case
+Details : Add "-u" option for lustre_config script to support upgrading 1.4
+ server targets to 1.6 in parallel.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13570
+Description: To avoid grant space > avaible space when the disk is almost
+ full. Without this patch you might see the error "grant XXXX >
+ available" or some LBUG about grant, when the disk is almost
+ full.
+Details : In filter_check_grant, for non_grant cache write, we should
+ check the left space by if (*left > ungranted + bytes), instead
+ of (*left > ungranted), because only we are sure the left space
+ is enough for another "bytes", then the ungrant space should be
+ increase. In client, we should update cl_avail_grant only there
+ is OBD_MD_FLGRANT in the reply.
+
+Severity : critical
+Bugzilla : 13748
+Description: Update RHEL 4 kernel to fix local root privilege escalation.
+Details : Update to the latest RHEL 4 kernel to fix the vulnerability
+ described in CVE-2007-4573. This problem could allow untrusted
+ local users to gain root access.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : when using O_DIRECT and quotas
+Bugzilla : 13930
+Description: Incorrect file ownership on O_DIRECT output files
+Details : block usage reported by 'lfs quota' does not take into account
+ files that have been written with O_DIRECT.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : always
+Bugzilla : 13976
+Description: touch file failed when fs is not full
+Details : OST in recovery should not be discarded by MDS in alloc_qos(),
+ otherwise we can get ENOSP while fs is not full.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 11301
+Description: parallel lock callbacks
+Details : Instead of sending blocking and completion callbacks as separated
+ requests, adding them to a set and sending in parallel.
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Description: block reactivating mgc import until all deactivates complete
Details : Fix race when failing back MDT/MGS to itself (testing)
+Severity : minor
+Frequency : at statup only
+Bugzilla : 12860
+Description: mds_lov_synchronize race leads to various problems
+Details : simultaneous MDT->OST connections at startup can cause the
+ sync to abort, leaving the OSC in a bad state.
+
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 12194
Description: add optional extra BUILD_VERSION info
Severity : minor
Bugzilla : 11706
Description: service threads may hog cpus when there are a lot of requests
- coming
-Details : Insert cond_resched to give other threads a chance to use some of
- the cpu
+Details : Insert cond_resched to give other threads a chance to use some CPU
Severity : normal
Frequency : rare
Bugzilla : 12597
Description: brw_stats were being printed incorrectly
Details : brw_stats were being printed as log2 but all of them were not
- recorded as log2. Also remove some code duplication arising from
- filter_tally_{read,write}.
+ recorded as log2. Also remove some code duplication arising from
+ filter_tally_{read,write}.
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 11674
Frequency : rare, only in recovery.
Description: ASSERTION(req->rq_type != LI_POISON) failed
Details : imp_lock should be held while iterating over imp_sending_list for
- prevent destroy request after get timeout in ptlrpc_queue_wait.
+ prevent destroy request after get timeout in ptlrpc_queue_wait.
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 12689
Description: replay-single.sh test 52 fails
Details : A lock's skiplist need to be cleanup when it being unlinked
- from its resource list.
+ from its resource list.
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 11737
Description: Short directio read returns full requested size rather than
- actual amount read.
+ actual amount read.
Details : Direct I/O operations should return actual amount of bytes
- transferred rather than requested size.
+ transferred rather than requested size.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 10589
Description: metadata RPC reduction (e.g. for rm performance)
Details : decrease the amount of synchronous RPC between clients and servers
- by canceling conflicing lock before the operation on the client side
- and packing thier handles into the main operation RPC to server.
+ by canceling conflicing lock before the operation on the client
+ and packing thier handles into the main operation RPC to server.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 4900
Description: Async OSC create to avoid the blocking unnecessarily.
Details : If a OST has no remain object, system will block on the creating
- when need to create a new object on this OST. Now, ways use
- pre-created objects when available, instead of blocking on an
- empty osc while others are not empty. If we must block, we block
- for the shortest possible period of time.
-
-Severity : major
-Bugzilla : 11710
-Description: improve handling recoverable errors
-Details : if request processig with error which can be recoverable on server
- request should be resend, otherwise page released from cache and
- marked as error.
+ when need to create a new object on this OST. Now, ways use
+ pre-created objects when available, instead of blocking on an
+ empty osc while others are not empty. If we must block, we block
+ for the shortest possible period of time.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 12702
Description: refine locking for avoid write wrong info into lov_objid file
Details : fix possible races with add new target and write/update data in
- lov_objid file.
+ lov_objid file.
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this on patchless clients the deathrow inode reaper is turned
off, and we depend on the VM to clean up old inodes. This
dependency was during via the fix for bug 12181.
-
+
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Bugzilla : 4226
Description: Permanently set tunables
Details : All writable /proc/fs/lustre tunables can now be permanently
- set on a per-server basis, at mkfs time or on a live
- system.
+ set on a per-server basis, at mkfs time or on a live system.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 10547
Bugzilla : 6062
Description: SPEC SFS validation failure on NFS v2 over lustre.
Details : Changes the blocksize for regular files to be 2x RPC size,
- and not depend on stripe size.
+ and not depend on stripe size.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 9293
Description: Multiple MD RPCs in flight.
Details : Further unserialise some read-only MDS RPCs - learn about intents.
- To avoid overly-overloading MDS, introduce a limit on number of
- MDS RPCs in flight for a single client and add /proc controls
- to adjust this limit.
+ To avoid overly-overloading MDS, introduce a limit on number of
+ MDS RPCs in flight for a single client and add /proc controls
+ to adjust this limit.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 22484
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