Issued:
2009-12-02
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2009:1626 - numactl bug fix update

Synopsis

numactl bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated numactl packages that resolve several issues are now available.

Description

numactl is Simple NUMA policy support. It consists of a numactl program to run other programs with a specific NUMA policy, and the libnuma library, which performs allocations with NUMA policy in applications.

These updated numactl packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

  • systems with NUMA nodes which were not ordered contiguously caused numactl to return incorrect and therefore invalid NUMA data. With this update, numactl shows correct and valid data for systems with NUMA nodes which are discontiguous in addition to those which are contiguous. (BZ#491689)

  • the "numactl" command possesses an '-H' short option that corresponds to the long option, '--hardware', which is used to show the inventory of available nodes on the system. However, numactl did not recognize the short '-H' option. With this update, numactl now recognizes the '-H' option, which once again has the same affect as '--hardware'. (BZ#502241)

All users of numactl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386

Updated Packages

  • numactl-0.9.8-10.el5.i386.rpm
  • numactl-devel-0.9.8-10.el5.ppc.rpm
  • numactl-devel-0.9.8-10.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • numactl-0.9.8-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • numactl-devel-0.9.8-10.el5.ia64.rpm
  • numactl-0.9.8-10.el5.ia64.rpm
  • numactl-devel-0.9.8-10.el5.i386.rpm
  • numactl-0.9.8-10.el5.ppc.rpm
  • numactl-0.9.8-10.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • numactl-0.9.8-10.el5.src.rpm
  • numactl-devel-0.9.8-10.el5.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information