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From: TomWij@gentoo.org (Tom Wijsman )
To: Gentoo Kernel List <gentoo-kernel@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-kernel] [ANNOUNCE] genpatches-3.6-13 release
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:58:34
Message-Id: 20130317185833.1093E33DADC@smtp.gentoo.org
1 This is an automated email announcing the release of genpatches-3.6-13
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4 CHANGES SINCE 3.6-12
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7 Revision 2315:
8 Revert memcg patches that prevent OOM with too many dirty pages which caused ZFS to flush dirty pages to deadlock, see bug #462066; in 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. Backported fixes from 3.8 and 3.7 that affect some of our Gentoo users. Backported one of these patches to 3.2 as well since there was no 3.2 bump last week. (tomwij)
9 Added: 2300_fix-warm-port-reset.patch
10 Added: 1800_memcg-OOM-revert-ZFS-deadlock.patch
11 Added: 1800_memcg-OOM-revert-ZFS-deadlock.patch
12 Added: 1900_unbreak-automounter-hppa.patch
13 Added: 2300_fix-warm-port-reset.patch
14 Added: 2300_revert-ASS-PSS-polling-timeout-removal.patch
15 Added: 1800_memcg-OOM-revert-ZFS-deadlock.patch
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17 Revision 2317:
18 3.6-13 release (tomwij)
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21 PATCHES
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24 When the website updates, the complete patch list and split-out patches will be
25 available here:
26 http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/patches-3.6-13.htm
27 http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/tarballs/genpatches-3.6-13.base.tar.bz2
28 http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/tarballs/genpatches-3.6-13.extras.tar.bz2
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31 ABOUT GENPATCHES
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34 genpatches is the patchset applied to some kernels available in Portage.
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36 For more information, see the genpatches homepage:
37 http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches
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39 For a simple example of how to use genpatches in your kernel ebuild, look at a
40 recent gentoo-sources ebuild.