system environment/kernel

kernel-largesmp - The Linux kernel compiled for machines with more than 64 CPUs on ppc64 and IA64 and with more than 8 CPUs on x86_64.

License: GPLv2
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
This package includes a version of the Linux kernel configured to handle up to
64 CPUs on X86-64, 128 CPUs on PPC64 and 512 CPUs on IA-64.

Install the kernel-largesmp package if your machine has more than 8 CPUs on
x86-64, more than 64 CPUs on PPC64, or more than 64 CPUs on IA-64.

Packages

kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-100.EL.x86_64 [13.2 MiB] Changelog by Vivek Goyal (2011-02-01):
-cxgb3: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory to fix xgb_extension_ioctl infoleak (Eugene Teo) [633153] {CVE-2010-3296}
-mlx4: disable MSI-X by default (Andy Gospodarek) [530596]
-ext3: call fs's invalidatepage instead of block_invalidatepage (Josef Bacik) [488611]
-av7110: check for negative array offset (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [672400] {CVE-2011-0521}
-ext3: don't dirty unmapped data buffers (Josef Bacik) [488611]
-net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions (Jiri Pirko) [672431] {CVE-2010-4655}

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