Issued:
2011-05-19
Updated:
2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0651 - systemtap bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

systemtap bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated systemtap packages that rebase to upstream version 1.4 are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running the Linux kernel, version 2.6. Developers can write scripts to collect data on the operation of the system.

With this update, SystemTap is rebased on upstream version 1.4. This rebase features several enhancements and bug fixes compared to version 1.2. This includes better diagnostics for backtracing, access to more kernel tracepoints, wildcards in process("/bin/*") probes, improved sys/sdt.h userspace markers, integrated compile-server client, and automatic pretty-printing of structures ($variable$).

For more details on enhancements and bug fixes applied by this update, refer to the "SystemTap" section in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Technical Notes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Technical_Notes/index.html

All SystemTap users are advised to apply this update.

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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 Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • systemtap-1.4-6.el6.src.rpm
  • systemtap-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-initscript-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-client-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-grapher-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-runtime-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • systemtap-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-testsuite-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-grapher-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-initscript-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-debuginfo-1.4-6.el6.s390.rpm
  • systemtap-initscript-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-grapher-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-testsuite-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-sdt-devel-1.4-6.el6.ppc.rpm
  • systemtap-debuginfo-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-debuginfo-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-grapher-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • systemtap-sdt-devel-1.4-6.el6.s390.rpm
  • systemtap-runtime-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-sdt-devel-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-server-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-sdt-devel-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-client-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-testsuite-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • systemtap-debuginfo-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • systemtap-server-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-debuginfo-1.4-6.el6.ppc.rpm
  • systemtap-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-sdt-devel-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-initscript-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • systemtap-server-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-testsuite-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-client-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • systemtap-runtime-1.4-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • systemtap-server-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • systemtap-sdt-devel-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • systemtap-client-1.4-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • systemtap-runtime-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-debuginfo-1.4-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • systemtap-1.4-6.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information