Issued:
2014-10-13
Updated:
2014-10-13

RHEA-2014:1473 - oprofile bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

oprofile bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated oprofile package that fix several bugs and adds various enhancements is 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 package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.9.9, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version including added support for Intel Xeon Processor E5-XXXX v2, Intel Xeon Processor E3-XXXX v3, Intel Broadwell Microarchitecture and Intel Atom Processor CXXXX CPU architectures. (BZ#809709, BZ#818353, BZ#832160, BZ#1121437, BZ#1128627)

Users of oprofile 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/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 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-gui-0.9.9-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.9-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.9-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.9-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.9-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.9-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.9-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.9-5.el6.s390.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.9-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.9-5.el6.ppc.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.9-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.9-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.9-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.9-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.9-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.9-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-gui-0.9.9-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.9-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-gui-0.9.9-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.9-5.el6.s390.rpm
  • oprofile-gui-0.9.9-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • oprofile-0.9.9-5.el6.src.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.9-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • oprofile-jit-0.9.9-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • oprofile-debuginfo-0.9.9-5.el6.ppc.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.9-5.el6.ppc.rpm
  • oprofile-devel-0.9.9-5.el6.s390.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information