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

RHBA-2012:0966 - oprofile bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

oprofile bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

OProfile is a system-wide profiler for Linux systems. The profiling runs transparently in the background and profile data can be collected at any time. OProfile uses the hardware performance counters provided on many processors, and can use the Real Time Clock (RTC) for profiling on processors without counters.

The oprofile packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.9.7, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#739142)

Additionally, this update fixes the following bug:

  • Under certain circumstances, the "opannotate" and "opreport" commands reported no results. With this update, this problem has been fixed so that these commands work as expected. (BZ#748789)

All OProfile users 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 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

  • oprofile-devel-0.9.7-1.el6.s390.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.7-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.7-1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • oprofile-gui-0.9.7-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.7-1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-gui-0.9.7-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.7-1.el6.src.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.7-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-gui-0.9.7-1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.7-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.7-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.7-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.7-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.7-1.el6.s390.rpm
  • oprofile-gui-0.9.7-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.7-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.7-1.el6.s390.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.7-1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.7-1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.7-1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.7-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.7-1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.7-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.7-1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.7-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.7-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.7-1.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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Additional information