Changelog for kmod-kvdo-6.2.8.7-94.el8.x86_64.rpm :

* Mon Nov 20 2023 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.7-94- Rebuilt for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: RHEL-11425
* Fri Oct 06 2023 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.7-93- Rebuilt for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: RHEL-11425
* Thu Aug 03 2023 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.7-92- Rebuilt for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: rhbz#2173037
* Thu Apr 27 2023 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.7-91- Rebuilt for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: rhbz#2173037
* Wed Apr 12 2023 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.7-90- Rebuilt for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: rhbz#2173037
* Wed Mar 22 2023 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.7-89- Rebuilt for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: rhbz#2173037
* Tue Feb 14 2023 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.7-88- Fixed bug in read-only rebuild when the logical size of the volume is an exact multiple of 821 4K blocks.- Resolves: rhbz#2166131
* Fri Dec 16 2022 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.6-88- Added a check for 0 length table line arguments.- Resolves: rhbz#2142080
* Wed Nov 16 2022 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.4-88- Rebuilt for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: rhbz#2119819
* Tue Nov 15 2022 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.8.4-87- Adapted to backported kernel changes.- Resolves: rhbz#2139242
* Mon Sep 26 2022 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.8.1-87- Fixed a bug which could produce a deadlock after multiple saves and resumes of a vdo.- Resolves: rhbz#2109047
* Thu Aug 11 2022 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.7.17-87- Rebuilt for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: rhbz#2060475
* Mon Jul 18 2022 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.7.17-86- Fixed bug which could result in empty flushes being issued to the storage below vdo while suspended.- Resolves: rhbz#2013056- Fixed syntax mismatch which prevented lvm from being able to configure a 512MB UDS index.- Resolves: rhbz#2073203- Fixed a race handling timeouts of dedupe index queries.- Resolves: rhbz#2092075
* Mon Jul 11 2022 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.6.14-86- Rebuild for latest 4.18 kernel.- Related: rhbz#2060475
* Thu Jul 07 2022 - Susan LeGendre-McGhee - 6.2.6.14-85- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel.- Related: rhbz#2060475
* Fri Feb 11 2022 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.6.14-83- Fixed stack frame warnings when building with the debug kernel.- Resolves: rhbz#1767236
* Thu Feb 03 2022 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.6.3-83- Adjusted kernel dependencies to grab the right packages.- Resolves: rhbz#2011426- Rebuilt for latest kernel.- Relates: rhbz#2000909
* Wed Nov 03 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.6.3-82- Fixed a bug which prevented the resumption of a suspended read-only vdo.- Resolves: rhbz#1996893
* Mon Oct 11 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.72-81.8_6- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#2000909
* Fri Aug 27 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.72-80- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Related: rhbz#1939279
* Tue Aug 10 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.72-79- Fixed a bug which could result in the UDS index issuing I/O while suspended.- Resolves: rhbz#1990180
* Thu Aug 05 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.71-79- Reduced context switches when a vdo is idle.- Resolves: rhbz#1886738
* Thu Jul 22 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.65-79- Removed unneeded allocations from the previous fixes for rebuilding a converted index.- Resolves: rhbz#1966824
* Thu Jul 15 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.62-79- Fixed chapter computation for a converted sparse index.- Resolves: rhbz#1965516- Fixed invalidation of converted chapters.- Resolves: rhbz#1966818- Removed extraneous fields from the super block of a converted index.- Resolves: rhbz#1965546- Fixed calculation of the number of expiring chapters in a converted index.- Resolves: rhbz#1975546- Fixed bugs rebuilding a converted index.- Resolves: rhbz#1966824
* Mon Jun 21 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.41-79- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1939279
* Tue Jun 01 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.41-78- Fixed bugs in reading the UDS index of a VDO volume which was converted to LVM.- Resolves: rhbz#1928284
* Thu May 20 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.21-78- Added support for VDO volumes which have been converted to LVM.- Related: rhbz#1928284
* Thu May 13 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.5.11-78- Introduced new memory size parameter values for UDS indexes which have been converted from vdo script management to LVM.- Resolves: rhbz#1928284
* Tue Mar 16 2021 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.4.26-77.8_5- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1939279
* Sat Nov 28 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.4.26-76- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1894978
* Thu Nov 05 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.4.26-75- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1894978
* Mon Nov 02 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.4.26-74- Modified physical growth to validate the new VDO size against the size of the underlying storage.- Resolves: rhbz#1732922- Fixed issues which prevented lvrename from working on lvm managed VDO devices.- Resolves: rhbz#1888419
* Thu Oct 01 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.4.14-74- Fixed a bug which causes the UDS index to consume an excessive number of CPU cycles when the VDO device is idle.- Resolves: rhbz#1870660
* Thu Jul 16 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.3.107-74- Updated dependencies to prevent installing kernel-rt incorrectly.- Resolves: rhbz#1811923- Bumped requirement for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Fri Jun 19 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.3.107-73- Fixed a bug which can cause a soft lockup if users interrupt processes waiting on dm-setup commands.- Resolves: rhbz#1844651- Fixed a rare race which could cause a suspend of a VDO device to fail.- Resolves: rhbz#1847747
* Tue Jun 02 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.3.91-73- Removed unused UDS bio statistics.- Resolves: rhbz#1827762- Removed support for old kernels.- Resolves: rhbz#1827762- Fixed Coverity errors.- Resolves: rhbz#1827763- Improved the error message when slab journal locks overflow.- Resolves: rhbz#1827761- Fixed a bug which could result in VDO issuing I/O while suspended.- Resolves: rhbz#1824789- Fixed a rare double-enqueue bug in the recovery journal.- Resolves: rhbz#1824802- Modified VDO to not allocate an index if the VDO device is started with deduplication disabled.- Resolves: rhbz#1755448- Nodified VDO to not log spurious journal lock warnings when cleaning up write requests which failed due to the VDO going read-only.- Resolves: rhbz#1840455
* Mon Apr 27 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117_8.3-73- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Mon Apr 27 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117_8.3-72- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Fri Apr 17 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117_8.3-71- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Fri Apr 17 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117_8.3-70- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Wed Mar 25 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117_8.3-69- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Wed Mar 11 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117-68- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Tue Mar 10 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117-67- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Tue Mar 10 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117-66- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1812069
* Sat Mar 07 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117-65- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1764816
* Tue Feb 11 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.117-63- Fixed a bug which would cause the UDS index to be perceived as corrupt when a VDO volume is moved to a system with a different endianness.- Resolves: rhbz#1745211- Modified UDS index rebuild to be interruptible so that shutting down a VDO whose index is rebuilding need not wait for the index rebuild to complete.- Resolves: rhbz#1737639- Prevented two VDO devices from being started on the same storage.- Resolves: rhbz#1725052- Fixed rare races which could result in VDO issuing I/O while suspended.- Resolves: rhbz#1766358- Fixed crashes when re-suspending a VDO after it had been resumed.- Resolves: rhbz#1765253- Made async mode ACID. Added async-unsafe mode to preserve the performance of the old implementation.- Resolves: rhbz#1657301
* Tue Jan 14 2020 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.24-63- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1764816
* Tue Dec 03 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.24-62- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1764816
* Tue Nov 26 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.24-61- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1764816
* Mon Nov 11 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.24-60- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1764816
* Thu Oct 31 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.24-59- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1764816
* Wed Oct 30 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.24-58- Incremented the dm target version to allow lvm to tell whether a VDO- Resolves: rhbz#1752893
* Thu Oct 24 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.18-58- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1764816
* Thu Oct 17 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.2.18-57- Reduced the default number of index zones as the previous default attempted to maximize index performance at the expense of all other processes.- Resolves: rhbz#1703507- Fixed an assertion when resuming a VDO device which was not suspended with the no-flush flag.- Resolves: rhbz#1752893
* Fri Sep 13 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.138-57- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1695330
* Thu Aug 08 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.138-56- Fixed a crash on allocation failure and a use-after-free race introduced by the changes to avoid issuing I/O while suspended.- Resolves: rhbz#1659303
* Fri Aug 02 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.134-56- Finished converting the VDO device to conform to the DM convention of not issuing I/O while suspended.- Resolves: rhbz#1659303- Fixed a bug where crash recovery could use the wrong threads for certain operations potentially resulting in memory corruption.- Resolves: rhbz#1703621- Fixed a bug which could cause segfaults when running the vdostatus command.- Resolves: rhbz#1669960- Eliminated a backtrace from the error logged when creating a VDO device with an erroneous physical size in the table line.- Resolves: rhbz#1717435- Fixed a possible use-after-free of the UDSConfiguration.- Resolves: rhbz#1653802- Made VDO a singleton device because multi-segment devices containing a VDO have a number of issues.- Resolves: rhbz#1725077- Converted the VDO device to conform to the DM convention of not issuing writes from the constructor.- Resolves: rhbz#1669086
* Mon Jul 29 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.102-56- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1695330
* Fri Jul 12 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.102-55- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1695330
* Thu Jun 27 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.102-54- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1695330
* Fri Jun 14 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.102-53- Continued converting the VDO device to conform to the DM convention of not issuing I/O while suspended. - Resolves: rhbz#1659303- Added more rate limiting of error logging in both the kvdo and uds modules in order to avoid soft-lockups on newer kernels. - Resolves: rhbz#1703243- Eliminated the passing of addresses of unaligned fields in packed - Resolves: rhbz#1718058
* Tue May 21 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.48-53- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1695330
* Tue May 21 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.48-52- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1695330
* Sun May 05 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.1.48-51- Modified the setting of the dm target version for VDO devices to only change when the dm interface (i.e. table line) changes instead of tying it to the VDO version. - Resolves: rhbz#1665298- Improved error handling when resizing VDO devices. - Resolves: rhbz#1659247- Reduced, removed, and/or rate limited error logging to avoid soft-lockups. - Resolves: rhbz#1678785 - Resolves: rhbz#1698664- Began converting the VDO device to conform to the DM convention of not issuing I/O while suspended. - Relates: rhbz#1659303- Added a dmsetup message to close the UDS index of a running VDO device. - Relates: rhbz#1643291
* Fri May 03 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-51- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1695330
* Mon Feb 25 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-50- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Fri Feb 15 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-49- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Feb 13 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-48- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Sat Feb 09 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-47- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Fri Feb 08 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-46- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Feb 06 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-45- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Jan 16 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-44- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Mon Jan 14 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-43- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Fri Jan 11 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-42- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Mon Jan 07 2019 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-41- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Dec 19 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-40- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Mon Dec 17 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-39- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Fri Dec 14 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.293-38- Improved dmsetup error reporting of invalid thread counts.- rhbz#1645324- Allowed VDO backing devices to specified by device number.- Resolves: rhbz#1594285- Eliminated memory allocations when suspended.- Resolves: rhbz#1658348- Improved error handling during suspend.- Resolves: rhbz#1658348
* Wed Dec 12 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-38- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Mon Dec 10 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-37- Bumped NVR for driver signing- Relates: rhbz#1589873- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Thu Nov 29 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-36- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Fri Nov 16 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.273-35- Fixed more error path memory leaks in the uds and kvdo modules.- Resolves: rhbz#1639854- Removed the read cache.- Resolves: rhbz#1639512- Fixed a bug which prevented parsing of version 0 table lines.- Resolves: rhbz#1643639- In order to properly handle version 0 table lines, made no-op physical growth not an error.- Resolves: rhbz#1643639- Limited the number of logical zones to 60.- Resolves: rhbz#1645324- Converted to use the kernel\'s bio zeroing method instead of a VDO specific one.- Resolves: rhbz#1647446- Added a missing call to flush_cache_page() after writing pages which may be owned by the page cache or a user as required by the kernel.- Resolves: rhbz#1647446- Added a version 2 table line which uses DM-style optional parameters.- Resolves: rhbz#1648469- Fixed a bug in the statistics tracking partial I/Os.- Resolves: rhbz#1648496- Added a maximum discard size table line parameter and removed the corresponding sysfs parameter which applied to all VDO devices.- Resolves: rhbz#1648469
* Wed Nov 07 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-35- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Oct 24 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-34- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Oct 24 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-33- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Fri Oct 19 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-32- Depend on more of the NVR for the kernel package.- Resolves: rhbz#1640699
* Tue Oct 16 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-31- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Tue Oct 16 2018 - Tomas Kopecek - 6.2.0.239-30- Bumped NVR for driver signing- Relates: rhbz#1589873
* Mon Oct 15 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-29- Bumped NVR for driver signing- Relates: rhbz#1589873
* Thu Oct 11 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-28- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Oct 10 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-27- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Sun Oct 07 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.239-26- Fixed error path memory leaks in the uds and kvdo modules.- Resolves: rhbz#1609403- Modified the physical and logical growth procedures to be consistent with other device mapper targets.- Resolves: rhbz#1631868
* Fri Sep 28 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-26- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Thu Sep 27 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-25- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Tue Sep 25 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-24- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Tue Sep 25 2018 - Joseph Chapman - 6.2.0.219-23- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Mon Sep 24 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-22- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Fri Sep 21 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-21- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Thu Sep 20 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-20- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Sep 19 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-19- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Tue Sep 18 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-18- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Mon Sep 17 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.219-17- Fixed error path memory leaks in the uds and kvdo modules.- Resolves: rhbz#1609403- Fixed conflict errors when installing RPMs via dnf.- Resolves: rhbz#1601103- Fixed a hang when recovering a VDO volume with a physical size larger than 16TB.- Resolves: rhbz#1628316- Fixed some potential initialization issues in the UDS module.- Resolves: rhbz#1609403- Fixed a use-after-free bug in a UDS error path.- Resolves: rhbz#1609403- Added missing va_end() calls.- Resolves: rhbz#1627953- Modified Makefile to take build flags from rpmbuild.- Resolves: rhbz#1624184
* Fri Sep 14 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-16- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Thu Sep 13 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-15- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Sep 12 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-14- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Aug 29 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-13- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Wed Aug 29 2018 - Joseph Chapman - 6.2.0.197-12- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Tue Aug 28 2018 - Josh Boyer - 6.2.0.197-11- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1623006
* Fri Aug 24 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-10- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1611663
* Mon Aug 20 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-9- Patched a new compiler warning out- Relates: rhbz#1611663
* Mon Aug 20 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-8- Bumped NVR for new 4.18 kernel- Relates: rhbz#1611663
* Mon Aug 13 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-7- Bumped NVR for 4.18 rebase- Resolves: rhbz#1534087
* Wed Aug 08 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.197-6- Enabled the setting of max_discard_sectors for VDO devices via sysfs. This allows users stacking dm-thin devices on top of VDO to set a value which is large enough that dm-thin will send discards to VDO.- Resolves: rhbz#1612349
* Sat Jul 28 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.187-6- No longer attempt to unload modules in %preun- Resolves: rhbz#1553420- Fixed a bug in %preun that was attempting to call \'dnf\'- Resolves: rhbz#1598924- Fixed weak-modules calls to use proper location for dracut- Resolves: rhbz#1609178- Fixed a potential deadlock in the UDS index by using the kernel supplied struct callback instead of our own implementation of synchronous callbacks.- Eliminated obsolete code and fields from UDS.- Converted the VDO module to use numeric.h from the UDS module instead of having its own version.- Fixed a bug which would cause incorrect encoding of VDO data structures on disk.- Removed or modified logging which prints pointers from the kernel since newer kernels obfuscate the pointer values for security reasons.- Eliminated confusing and spurious error messages when rebuilding a UDS index.- Improved memory allocation by not using the incorrect __GFP_NORETRY flag and by using the memalloc_noio_save mechanism.- Finished conversion of the encoding and decoding of the VDO\'s on-disk structures to be platform independent.- Converted VDO to use the atomic API from the UDS module instead of its own.- Fixed memory leaks in UDS error paths.- Fixed a potential stack overflow when reaping the recovery journal.
* Fri Jul 06 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.132-5- Rebuilt to work with 4.18 kernel.
* Thu Jun 28 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.132-4Note: This is a pre-release version, future versions of VDO may not supportVDO devices created with this version.- Removed obsolete code.- Continued conversion of the encoding and decoding of the VDO\'s on-disk structures to be platform independent.- Adopted use of gcc\'s built-in byte order macros.- Converted the VDO module to use the platform independent version of the Murmur3 hash from the UDS module.- Improved counting of dedupe timeouts by including in the count queries which are not made due to their being a lack of resources from previous queries taking too long.- Improved checking that VDO does not allocate memory from its own threads during normal operation.- Fixed a bug which caused crashes with VDO on top of RAID-50.- Fixed a bug which caused VDO to ignore most flush requests on kernels later than 4.10- Resolves: rhbz#1594062
* Thu Jun 21 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.109-4Note: This is a pre-release version, future versions of VDO may not supportVDO devices created with this version.- Removed obsolete code.- Made uses of memory barriers and atomics more portable across platforms.- Converted the encoding and decoding of many of VDO\'s on-disk structures to be platform independent.- Made the implementation of VDO\'s in-memory data structures platform independent.- Fixed a logging bug which resulted in single log message being split across multiple log lines on newer kernels.- Fixed a bug which would cause attempts to grow the physical size of a VDO device to fail if the device below the VDO was resized while the VDO was offline.- Converted to use GCC\'s built-in macros for determining endianness.- Converted some non-performance critical atomics to be spinlock protected in order to avoid dealing with memory barrier portability issues.- Fixed a bug which could cause data loss when discarding unused portions of a VDO\'s logical space.- Reduced memory usage (slightly) by rearranging structures to pack better in memory.- Modified grow physical to fail in the prepare step if the size isn\'t changing, avoiding a suspend-and-resume cycle.- Added support for building with a 4.18 kernel.
* Mon Jun 04 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.71-4Note: This is a pre-release version, future versions of VDO may not supportVDO devices created with this version.- Updated to compile on aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x processor architectures in addition to x86.- Updated atomics, memory barriers, and other synchronization mechanisms to work on aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x processor architectures in addition to x86.- Fixed thread safety issues in the UDS page cache.- Removed obsolete code and interfaces from the UDS module.- Added /sys/kvdo/version which contains the currently loaded version of the kvdo module.- Updated the UDS module to consistently generate and encode on-disk data regardless of the processor architecture.- Began Updating the VDO module to consistently encode on-disk data regardless of the processor architecture.- Added logging of normal operation when a VDO device starts normally.- Fixed a potential use-after-free race when shutting down a VDO device.- Modified allocations made from VDO index threads to use the correct flags.- Exported the MurmurHash3 implementation from the UDS module rather than having a seperate copy in the VDO module.- Fixed handling of I/O errors in 4.13 and later kernels.- Exported functions for handling endian conversions from the UDS module for use by the VDO module.
* Tue May 01 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.35-3- Enabled aarch64 builds
* Fri Apr 27 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.35-2Note: This is a pre-release version, future versions of VDO may not supportVDO devices created with this version.- Added validation that the release version numbers in the geometry and super block match on load.- Fixed compilation problems on newer versions of GCC.
* Tue Apr 24 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.32-2Note: This is a pre-release version, future versions of VDO may not supportVDO devices created with this version.- Merged the funnel queue implementations in the uds and kvdo modules.- Improved deduplication of concurrent requests containing the same data.- Enabled loading of VDO devices created with version 6.0 or 6.1.- Moved atomic.h from the UDS module to the VDO module since the UDS module doesn\'t use it.- Removed spurious error messages when first creating the index for a new VDO.- Added validation that the release version numbers in the geometry block and VDO super block match.- Fixed bug in UDS on architectures with page sizes larger than 4K.- Reflected kernel change of SECTOR_SHIFT and SECTOR_SIZE from enums to macros.- Continued to remove obsolete functionality from the UDS module.- Continued to add support for architectures other than x86.- Fixed a thread-safety issue in UDS module\'s chapter cache.
* Tue Apr 17 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.4-2- Fixed path to _sbindir for weak-mldules- Resolves: rhbz#1566144
* Fri Apr 13 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.2.0.4-1- Updated to use github for Source0- Removed unused sections- Initial RHEL8 RPM rhbz#1534087
* Fri Apr 13 2018 - J. corwin Coburn - 6.2.0.4-1- Initial pre-release for RHEL 8. - Please be aware that this version is not compatible with previous versions of VDO. Support for loading or upgrading devices created with VDO version 6.1 will be available soon.- Management tools will work with both python 2 and python 3.- Dedupe path improvements.- Beginnings of support for non-x86 architectures.- Removed obsolete code from UDS.
* Tue Feb 27 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.1.0.153-15- Fixed preun handling of loaded modules- Resolves: rhbz#1549178
* Fri Feb 16 2018 - Joseph Chapman - 6.1.0.149-13- Sync mode is safe if underlying storage changes to requiring flushes- Resolves: rhbz#1540777
* Wed Feb 07 2018 - Joseph Chapman - 6.1.0.146-13- Module target is now \"vdo\" instead of \"dedupe\"- Fixed a bug where crash recovery led to failed kernel page request- Improved modification log messages- Improved package description and summary fields- Resolves: rhbz#1535127- Resolves: rhbz#1535597- Resolves: rhbz#1540696- Resolves: rhbz#1541409
* Tue Feb 06 2018 - Andy Walsh - 6.1.0.144-13- Updated summary and descriptions- Resolves: rhbz#1541409
* Thu Feb 01 2018 - Joseph Chapman - 6.1.0.130-12- Fix General Protection Fault unlocking UDS callback mutex- Removing kmod-kvdo package unloads kernel module- Fix URL to point to GitHub tree- Resolves: rhbz#1510176- Resolves: rhbz#1533260- Resolves: rhbz#1539061
* Fri Jan 19 2018 - Joseph Chapman - 6.1.0.124-11- Fixed provisional referencing for dedupe.- Only log a bio submission from a VDO to itself.- vdoformat cleans up metadata properly after fail.- Resolves: rhbz#1511587- Resolves: rhbz#1520972- Resolves: rhbz#1532481
* Wed Jan 10 2018 - Joseph Chapman - 6.1.0.114-11- /sys/uds permissions now resticted to superuser only- Remove /sys/uds files that should not be used in production- Removing kvdo module reports version- VDO automatically chooses the proper write policy by default- Fixed a Coverity-detected error path leak- Resolves: rhbz#1525305- Resolves: rhbz#1527734- Resolves: rhbz#1527737- Resolves: rhbz#1527924- Resolves: rhbz#1528399
* Thu Dec 21 2017 - Joseph Chapman - 6.1.0.106-11- Detect journal overflow after 160E of writes- Clean up UDS threads when removing last VDO- Resolves: rhbz#1512968- Resolves: rhbz#1523240
* Tue Dec 12 2017 Joe Chapman 6.1.0.97-11- Default logical size is no longer over-provisioned- Remove debug logging when verifying dedupe advice- Resolves: rhbz#1519330
* Fri Dec 08 2017 Joe Chapman 6.1.0.89-11- improve metadata cleanup after vdoformat failure- log REQ_FLUSH & REQ_FUA at level INFO- improve performance of cuncurrent write requests with the same data- Resolves: rhbz#1520972- Resolves: rhbz#1521200
* Fri Dec 01 2017 Joe Chapman 6.1.0.72-10- clear VDO metadata on a vdo remove call- fix create of new dedupe indices- add magic number to VDO geometry block- do less logging when stopping a VDO- add a UUID- Resolves: rhbz#1512127- Resolves: rhbz#1516081- Resolves: rhbz#1511109- Resolves: rhbz#1515183
* Fri Nov 17 2017 Joe Chapman 6.1.0.55-9- fail loading an uncreated index more gracefully- remove spurious/unnecessary files from the distribution- fix kernel module version- make logging less chatty- fix an integer overflow in makeVDOLayout- Resolves: rhbz#1511034- Resolves: rhbz#1511109- Resolves: rhbz#1511096
* Fri Nov 10 2017 Joe Chapman 6.1.0.44-8- fix readCacheSize handling large numbers- vdoformat signals error when it finds a geometry block- prevent kernel oops when loading an old geometry block- vdoformat silently rounds down physical sizes to a block boundary- UDS threads identify related VDO device- clean up contents of source tarballs- Resolves: rhbz#1505936- Resolves: rhbz#1507996- Resolves: rhbz#1509466- Resolves: rhbz#1510558- Resolves: rhbz#1510585- Resolves: rhbz#1511201- Resolves: rhbz#1511209
* Fri Nov 03 2017 Joe Chapman 6.1.0.34-7- Bugfixes- Resolves: rhbz#1491422
* Mon Oct 30 2017 Joe Chapman 6.1.0.13-6- Fixed some scanning tool complaints- Resolves: rhbz#1491422
* Tue Oct 24 2017 Andy Walsh 6.1.0.0-6- Fixed kernel requirement to allow subsequent releases without updating spec- Resolves: rhbz#1491422
* Fri Oct 20 2017 John Wiele 6.1.0.0-5- Bumped kernel requirement to 3.10.0-741- Resolves: rhbz#1491422
* Tue Oct 17 2017 John Wiele 6.1.0.0-4- Resolved some missing symbols- Resolves: rhbz#1491422
* Mon Oct 16 2017 John Wiele 6.1.0.0-3- Updated to provide a useable package- Resolves: rhbz#1491422
* Sat Oct 14 2017 Andy Walsh 6.1.0.0-2- Removed invalid requirement and some unnecessary comments in spec- Resolves: rhbz#1491422
* Wed Oct 11 2017 John Wiele 6.1.0.0-1- Initial vdo module for Driver Update Program- Resolves: rhbz#1491422