Issued:
2013-11-20
Updated:
2013-11-20

RHBA-2013:1712 - numactl bug fix update

Synopsis

numactl bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated numactl packages that fix two bugs 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.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, the "localalloc" option was not described clearly in the numactl(8) manual page, which could cause confusion. This update adds a clear description of "localalloc" to the numactl(8) manual page. (BZ#881779)

  • Due to a bug in the numastat utility source code, output of the "numastat -m" command reported incorrect values of the amount of allocated static huge page memory. A patch has been applied to address this bug, and numastat now calculates huge page sizes properly. (BZ#987507)

Users of numactl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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/site/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-debuginfo-2.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-8.el6.src.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm
  • numactl-debuginfo-2.0.7-8.el6.ppc.rpm
  • numactl-devel-2.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm
  • numactl-devel-2.0.7-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numactl-devel-2.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numactl-debuginfo-2.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numactl-debuginfo-2.0.7-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numactl-devel-2.0.7-8.el6.ppc.rpm
  • numactl-2.0.7-8.el6.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information