Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0828 - numactl bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

numactl bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated numactl packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The numactl packages provide a simple Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) policy support and consist of the numactl program to run other programs with a specific NUMA policy and the libnuma library to do allocations in applications using the NUMA policy.

The numactl packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.0.7, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#645066)

This update also fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, the man page for the numastat tool was not included in the numactl package. This update adds the missing numastat man page to numactl. (BZ#751764)

All users of numactl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
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 - 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 Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • numactl-2.0.7-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • numactl-debuginfo-2.0.7-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • numactl-devel-2.0.7-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • numactl-debuginfo-2.0.7-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • numactl-devel-2.0.7-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numactl-devel-2.0.7-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numactl-devel-2.0.7-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • numactl-debuginfo-2.0.7-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numactl-debuginfo-2.0.7-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-3.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information