Kernel 3.18.8 for ROSA 2012 2012.1 2014.1 OMV2013 2014 2015

[NicCo]

Kernel 3.18.8 for ROSA 2012 2012.1 2014.1 OMV2013 2014 2015

Kernel 3.18.8 for ROSA 2012lts, rosa2012.1, omv2013.0, omv2014.0, rosa2014.1 and cooker (omv2015.0)

Kernel 3.18 arrives ASAP in its complex nrj & nrjQL flavours, for ROSA and OpenMandriva Linux OSes!

This is the 8th version of "nrj / nrjQL" stable 3.18.x, in its full development stage,
all features have been already added and completed, it should be a safe update...

Kernel 3.18.8 - http://lwn.net/Articles/635124/


Our changelog

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%changelog

* Wed Mar 04 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.18.8-1
+ update to 3.18.8 - stable 
- drop TOI: there are still issues with hybernation/resume in some HW,
- the four patches for TOI support have been moved to /archives
- add 0001-drm-radeon-dp-Set-EDP_CONFIGURATION_SET-for-bridge-c.patch
- a try to fix : https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1137
- small fixes and cleanups
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.18 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-70) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Fri Feb 27 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.18.7-1
+ update to 3.18.7 - stable 
- add support for the reiser4 fs with: reiser4-for-3.18.6.patch
- add TOI for 3.18 plus 3 fix patches: TOI is back!
- drop some patches patches that now are already in mainstream 
- fix a kconflicts for nvidia-long-lived when mdvver >= 201300
- small fixes and cleanups
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.18 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-70) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Wed Feb 25 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.18.6-1
+ update to 3.18.6 - stable 
- small fixes and cleanups
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.18 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-70) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Mon Feb 02 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.18.5-1
+ update to 3.18.5 - stable 
- drop some patches patches that now are already in mainstream 
- small fixes and cleanups
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.18 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-70) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Sat Jan 31 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.18.4-1
+ update to 3.18.4 - stable 
- add a new key > Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) (I40E_FCOE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
- currently its first setup value as disabled > # CONFIG_I40E_FCOE is not set
- drop some patches patches that now are already in mainstream 
- small fixes and cleanups
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.18 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-70) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Tue Jan 27 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.18.3-1
+ update to 3.18.3 - stable 
- drop # block fixes patches that now are already in mainstream 
- small fixes and cleanups
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.18 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-70) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Fri Jan 23 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.18.2-1
+ update to 3.18.2 - stable 
- add a patch to fix performance issue:
- x86-vdso-Use-asm-volatile-in-__getcpu.patch
- add a patch for iwlwifi:
- net-wireless-iwlwifi-mvm-fix-Rx-with-both-chains.patch
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.18 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-70) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Wed Jan 21 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.18.1-1
+ update to 3.18.1 - stable
+ it's first version of "nrj/nrjQL" stable 3.18.x, in early development
- stage, so, it's only for testing purposes, please, dont use this srpm,
- for your daily PC working, because is still to fix all over!!!
- all the defconfigs have been prepared for the 3.18 series
- all the patches have been added/update for the 3.18 series
- all the kernel specs have been updated to the 3.18 series
- all custom openmandriva/rosa features have been backported from previous
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.18 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-70) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Mon Jan 12 2015 Nicolo' Costanza <abitrules@yahoo.it> 3.17.8-1
+ update to 3.17.8 - stable
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.17 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- The rel (-1) (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- the rel (-QL) will be used for development and experimental flavours,
- instead (-ONE) is born by the -1 % -69 merge, can generate all flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - it's a very complete kernel flavour sets
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Build status & Availability

I remind you the base repo address for kernels 3.18 link:
http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/kerne ... epository/

The rpms will be available for for rosa2012lts, rosa 2012.1, omv2013, omv2014, cooker
These below are the rebuilds right now in progress... related to the new kernel 3.18.8

nrj >>> https://abf.rosalinux.ru/kernels_3_18x/ ... uild_lists
- kernel-nrj-desktop

nrjQL >>> https://abf.rosalinux.ru/kernels_3_18x/ ... uild_lists
- kernel-nrjQL-desktop



VMWare virtualization

NEWS:
With current VMware 11 / VMPlayer 7: everything works without requiring any unofficial patching

General Info about kernel 3.18
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.18


let me know your feedback...
bye, NicCo

[oiram73]

Hi!
With this version i dont have the black screen after suspend on ram!
Good!

[NicCo]

Hi!
With this version i dont have the black screen after suspend on ram!
Good!

Eureka! Good!

So, the proposed patch really fix it!
It was a very long time nasty issue,,,.

from changelog

- add 0001-drm-radeon-dp-Set-EDP_CONFIGURATION_SET-for-bridge-c.patch
- a try to fix : https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1137

DId you had a different bugzilla open issue?
If so, tell me the number to be closed as solved

Solo che con gli ATI-open NON si riaccende lo schermo cosa che ho già segnalato qui:

https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732

solo che finora non ho ancora avuto modo di insistere.

[oiram73]

IL https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732
L'ho già chiuso io!

[trencan]

Now it performs much better than 3.18.7. My PC suspends to RAM correctly, only problem I have is with no network after resume. I can not start network.service, here is output:

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[root@localhost ~]# systemctl status network.service
network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2015-03-07 08:17:10 CET; 35s ago
  Process: 10490 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 07 08:17:06 localhost.localdomain network[10490]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 07 08:17:07 localhost.localdomain network[10490]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 07 08:17:08 localhost.localdomain network[10490]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 07 08:17:08 localhost.localdomain network[10490]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 07 08:17:09 localhost.localdomain network[10490]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 07 08:17:10 localhost.localdomain network[10490]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 07 08:17:10 localhost.localdomain network[10490]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 07 08:17:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: network.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 07 08:17:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down networking.
Mar 07 08:17:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit network.service entered failed state.

root@localhost ~]# journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Sat 2015-02-21 21:21:26 CET, end at Sat 2015-03-07 08:19:01 CET. --
Mar 07 08:18:59 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_wait_bbp_ready: Error - BBP register access failed, aborting
Mar 07 08:18:59 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5)
Mar 07 08:19:00 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_wait_bbp_ready: Error - BBP register access failed, aborting
Mar 07 08:19:00 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5)
Mar 07 08:19:01 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_wait_bbp_ready: Error - BBP register access failed, aborting
Mar 07 08:19:01 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5)
Mar 07 08:19:01 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[3955]: <error> [1425712741.671032] [nm-supplicant-interface.c:997] interface_add_cb(): (wlan0): error adding interface: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab this inte
Mar 07 08:19:01 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[3955]: dbus_g_proxy_cancel_call: assertion 'pending != NULL' failed
Mar 07 08:19:01 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[3955]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: starting -> down
Mar 07 08:19:01 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[3955]: <warn> Trying to remove a non-existant call id.

04:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
        Subsystem: Belkin F5D7000 v6000 Wireless G Desktop Card
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
        Region 0: Memory at faff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Kernel driver in use: rt61pci

Only reboot helps to bring network up.

[Alexander83]

Installed 3.18.8-nrjQL on all my machines: all works good!

[astragalo]

Hi trencan, try unload and reload the module of the network adapter.

Bye.

[trencan]

Hi trencan, try unload and reload the module of the network adapter.

Bye.

I tried that, it didn't help, here is result:

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root@localhost ~]# systemctl restart network.service
Job for network.service failed. See 'systemctl status network.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl status network.service
network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2015-03-09 18:19:41 CET; 9s ago
  Process: 15191 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 09 18:19:37 localhost.localdomain network[15191]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 09 18:19:38 localhost.localdomain network[15191]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 09 18:19:39 localhost.localdomain network[15191]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 09 18:19:39 localhost.localdomain network[15191]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 09 18:19:40 localhost.localdomain network[15191]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 09 18:19:41 localhost.localdomain network[15191]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 09 18:19:41 localhost.localdomain network[15191]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mar 09 18:19:41 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: network.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 09 18:19:41 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down networking.
Mar 09 18:19:41 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit network.service entered failed state.
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe -r rt61pci
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep rt61pci
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe rt61pci
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep rt61pci
rt61pci                32088  0 
rt2x00pci              13287  1 rt61pci
rt2x00mmio             13603  1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib              55250  3 rt61pci,rt2x00pci,rt2x00mmio
eeprom_93cx6           13344  1 rt61pci
crc_itu_t              12707  1 rt61pci
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl restart network.service
Job for network.service failed. See 'systemctl status network.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[root@localhost ~]# journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Tue 2015-02-24 05:53:28 CET, end at Mon 2015-03-09 18:21:30 CET. --
Mar 09 18:21:28 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_wait_bbp_ready: Error - BBP register access failed, aborting
Mar 09 18:21:28 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5)
Mar 09 18:21:29 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_wait_bbp_ready: Error - BBP register access failed, aborting                                                                                 
Mar 09 18:21:29 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5)                                                                                
Mar 09 18:21:30 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[3907]: <error> [1425921690.529048] [nm-supplicant-interface.c:997] interface_add_cb(): (wlan0): error adding interface: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab this inte
Mar 09 18:21:30 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[3907]: dbus_g_proxy_cancel_call: assertion 'pending != NULL' failed                                                                                           
Mar 09 18:21:30 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[3907]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: starting -> down                                                                                           
Mar 09 18:21:30 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[3907]: <warn> Trying to remove a non-existant call id.                                                                                                        
Mar 09 18:21:30 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_wait_bbp_ready: Error - BBP register access failed, aborting                                                                                 
Mar 09 18:21:30 localhost.localdomain kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt61pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5)                                                                                

But also if it helps, it is not permanent solution for me, I can not reload kernel module after every resume.

[joeghi]

Ciao Nicco,

ho provato il 3.18.8, e sembra OK; ho trovato la causa del
problema dello scheduler, ovvero il fatto che il /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
è sempre settato a "none". Sembra che con il 3.18 ufficiale sia stato introdotto
una specie di nuovo scheduler, chiamato "Multiblock Queue I/O",
che dovrebbe abbassare la latenza per dischi SSD, quando ci sono tantissime
operazioni (superiori a 1 milione di OP al secondo). Qui c'e' una spiegazione:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTgzMjM

Come puoi leggere al fondo c'e' scritto:

"missing features right now are I/O scheduler support in blk-mq and mailine multi-path support."
Ovvero manca ancora il supporto per gli I/O scheduler.

Infatti se vai su /sys/block/sda/, noterai che c'e' una directory /sys/block/sda/mq/ che
prima non c'era.

A triggherare questo nuovo scheduler è l'opzione CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT, che
nel kernel 3.18.x di OMV/Rosa si è tirato dentro il valore CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT=y. Riportandola
a "# CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT is not set", le cose vengono riportate come prima
e il BFQ, come pure gli altri scheduler riaffiorano.

Ho provato a fare un build veloce con quella chiave disabilitata del 3.18.8 aggiornandolo al 3.18.9, e l'ho messo qui:

http://abf-downloads.rosalinux.ru/ghibo ... n/release/
http://abf-downloads.rosalinux.ru/ghibo ... n/release/

in cui ho disabilitato quell'opzione e il tutto sembra essere tornato ai valori pre Multiblock-queue (avevo
riabililitato il TOI).

Ho sentito anche il Valente poco fa, e secondo lui il multiblock dovrebbe abbassare la latenza e quindi
rendere superfluo lo scheduler. Tuttavia sembra che al momento questo sia falso e l'ha discusso anche al LinuxCon.
Il multiblock dovrebbe dare prestazioni migliori sopra il milione di OPS per dispositivi high-end, dove l'assenza
del multiblock rappresenterebbe un collo di bottiglia. Tuttavia, a detta di Paolo, sembra che al momento (magari miglioreranno in futuro),
le garanzie del multibock siano peggiori di quelle del deadline e in termini di latenza c'e' un bel disastro
(non mi stupirei che fosse anche la causa dei problemi dei trasferimenti USB di cui qui https://forums.openmandriva.org/en/disc ... 8-5#latest).

Ciao.
J.

[NicCo]

Ciao Nicco,

ho provato il 3.18.8, e sembra OK; ho trovato la causa del
problema dello scheduler, ovvero il fatto che il /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
è sempre settato a "none". Sembra che con il 3.18 ufficiale sia stato introdotto
una specie di nuovo scheduler, chiamato "Multiblock Queue I/O",
che dovrebbe abbassare la latenza per dischi SSD, quando ci sono tantissime
operazioni (superiori a 1 milione di OP al secondo). Qui c'e' una spiegazione:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTgzMjM
.........................................................................

Avevo da poco trovato e letto qualcosa circa il nuovo scheduler chiamato "Multiblock Queue I/O"

cambierò la chiave nel modo da te suggerito
# CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT is not set"

sperando questo possa risolvere anche i crash riscontrati durante i trasfer i/0 pesanti su usb


Per quanto riguarda il TOI, io l'avevo disattivato in quanto alcuni avevano riscontrato malfunzionamenti soprattutto durante le operazioni di hybernation o del suo successivo resume, fatto che io non ho potuto riprodurre in quanto sui miei portatili non avevo riscontrato alcun problema, a me funzionava bene tutto del TOI, ma leggendo le numerose lamentele al riguardo, avevo deciso momentaneamente di toglierlo per evitare questi problemi...


grazie,
ciao

[NicCo]

A very good News for the Kernel 3.18 serie, with 3.18.9 it has been declared as LTS, that was really expected / hoped of me...

Linux Kernel 3.18.9 Is Now an LTS (Long-Term Support) Release
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Ke ... 5556.shtml

Kernel 3.18.9 will follow soon here... and many other following versions...