[LU-4416] support for 3.12 linux kernel

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Critical
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.8.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.6.0
• Labels: HB patch
• Environment: fc19, fc20
• Assignee: Yang Sheng
• Reporter: Bob Glossman (Inactive)

Description

tracker for 3.12 kernel support

now that the kernel used in fc19 and fc20 is 3.12 we will need to support it soon.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-5234 lustre builds on 3.12 kernels are broken
• is related to: LU-6063 conf-sanity test_76a fails on RHEL7, SLES12
• is related to: LU-4800 no automatic module load in newer kernels
• is related to: LU-5275 clean up technical debt for proc_dir_entry changes
• is related to: LU-4150 sanity test_133e: Bad write_bytes sum, expected 1376256, got 0
• is related to: LU-5022 support for 3.10 rhel7 linux kernel
• is related to: LU-684 replace dev_rdonly kernel patch with dm-flakey
• is related to: LU-6215 Sync Lustre external tree with lustre linux kernel client
• is related to: LU-4993 support for 3.14 linux kernel
• is related to: LU-5609 support for 3.17 kernel
• is related to: LU-3227 fc18: sanity test_103: @@@@@@ FAIL: permissions failed
• is related to: LU-4209 O_LOV_DELAY_CREATE conflict with __O_TMPFILE
• is related to: LU-4127 Loading fld module crashes kernel in mainline 3.12-rc.5
• is related to: LU-4157 Removing files hangs with 100%CPU on 3.12-rc7 client
• is related to: LU-4231 NFS reexport leads to LBUG in mainline 3.12 client
• is related to: LU-4400 Another LBUG with NFS reexport mainline 3.12 client
• is related to: LU-4451 Kernel Oops with NFS reexport using mainline 3.12 client
• is related to: LU-4530 Mainline kernel client (3.12-3.14): lfs quota -u ... -> Permission denied
• is related to: LU-4960 Investigate support for linux process namespace on server side
• is related to: LU-5058 support for linux process namespace is broken
• is related to: LU-3319 Adapt to 3.10 upstream kernel proc_dir_entry change