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Upgrade to the UEK Release 5 Preview on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Honglin Su
Sr. Director of Product Management

The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK), included as part of Oracle Linux, provides the latest open source innovations, optimizations and security for enterprise cloud workloads. The UEK Release 4 Update 6, based on the upstream kernel 4.1, is the current UEK release that powers the production workloads on Oracle Linux 7 or 6 in the cloud or on-premises.

Linux 4.14 is the latest Long-Term Stable (LTS) release of the kernel, and it is the mainline kernel that the UEK Release 5 tracks. You can experiment the UEK Release 5 preview today with Oracle Linux 7 on x86_64 and ARM64.

The example below is using an Oracle Linux 7 x86_64 instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The kernel was upgraded to the UEK Release 5 preview within a few minutes. The same upgrade procedures apply to an Oracle Linux 7 x86_64 instance running on-premises.

The Oracle Linux 7 instance runs the current UEK Release 4 Update 6 kernel.

[root@honsu-ol74 opc]# uname -a
Linux honsu-ol74 4.1.12-112.14.13.el7uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Thu Jan 18 11:38:29 PST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Before performing the upgrade, modify the yum repository setting and enable the UEK Release 5 preview channel:

[root@honsu-ol74 opc]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
[root@honsu-ol74 yum.repos.d]# vi public-yum-ol7.repo
[ol7_developer_UEKR5]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever UEK5 Development Packages ($basearch)
baseurl=http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/developer_UEKR5/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

Next you run yum upgrade command to perform the upgrade.

[root@honsu-ol74 yum.repos.d]# yum upgrade kernel-uek
Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo                                                                 11503/11503
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-uek.x86_64 0:4.14.14-11.el7uek will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: linux-firmware >= 20180113-60.git65b1c68 for package: kernel-uek-4.14.14-11.el7uek.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package linux-firmware.noarch 0:20171128-57.git17e62881.0.2.el7 will be updated
---> Package linux-firmware.noarch 0:20180113-60.git65b1c68.el7 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

===========================================================================================================
 Package               Arch          Version                              Repository                  Size
===========================================================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-uek            x86_64        4.14.14-11.el7uek                    ol7_developer_UEKR5         52 M
Updating for dependencies:
 linux-firmware        noarch        20180113-60.git65b1c68.el7           ol7_developer_UEKR5         56 M

Transaction Summary
===========================================================================================================
Install  1 Package
Upgrade             ( 1 Dependent package)

Total download size: 107 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
(1/2): kernel-uek-4.14.14-11.el7uek.x86_64.rpm                                      |  52 MB  00:00:41
(2/2): linux-firmware-20180113-60.git65b1c68.el7.noarch.rpm                         |  56 MB  00:00:44
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                      2.4 MB/s | 107 MB  00:00:44
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Updating   : linux-firmware-20180113-60.git65b1c68.el7.noarch                                        1/3
  Installing : kernel-uek-4.14.14-11.el7uek.x86_64                                                     2/3
  Cleanup    : linux-firmware-20171128-57.git17e62881.0.2.el7.noarch                                   3/3
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i18n
network
ifcfg
btrfs
crypt
dm
dmraid
kernel-modules
lvm
mdraid
qemu
qemu-net
iscsi
resume
rootfs-block
terminfo
udev-rules
virtfs
biosdevname
systemd
usrmount
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nss-softokn
i18n
network
ifcfg
btrfs
crypt
dm
dmraid
kernel-modules
lvm
mdraid
qemu
qemu-net
iscsi
resume
rootfs-block
terminfo
udev-rules
virtfs
biosdevname
systemd
usrmount
-uptrack
base
fs-lib
shutdown
  Verifying  : kernel-uek-4.14.14-11.el7uek.x86_64                                                     1/3
  Verifying  : linux-firmware-20180113-60.git65b1c68.el7.noarch                                        2/3
  Verifying  : linux-firmware-20171128-57.git17e62881.0.2.el7.noarch                                   3/3

Installed:
  kernel-uek.x86_64 0:4.14.14-11.el7uek

Dependency Updated:
  linux-firmware.noarch 0:20180113-60.git65b1c68.el7

Complete!

Now the kernel has been upgraded the UEK Release 5 preview. Reboot the Oracle Linux 7 instance to have the new kernel take effect. When the Oracle Linux 7 instance comes back, you now have the UEK Release 5 preview  running.

[root@honsu-ol74 opc]# uname -a
Linux honsu-ol74 4.14.14-11.el7uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 22:57:19 PST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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