- Issued:
- 2011-02-16
- Updated:
- 2011-02-16
RHBA-2009:1458 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
numactl bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated numactl package that fixes a bug and improves documentation is
now available.
Description
numactl provides simple NUMA policy support. It consists of numactl, a
program to run other programs with a specific NUMA policy and libnuma, to
do allocations with NUMA policy in applications.
This update addresses the following issue:
- on NUMA systems with more than 4 GB of memory in a node, "numactl
- -hardware" returned incorrect memory size and free data information. This
update adds a numa_node_size64() function that enables numactl to report
memory usage information for larger nodes correctly. (BZ#491249)
As well, this update makes the following improvement to numactl's
documentation:
- the numa man page described the purpose of numa_node_to_cpus (it converts
a node number to a bitmask of CPUs) but offered no information about what
specifically to pass to the function, what units the buffer was in or what
the buffer represented. With this update, that section of the man page has
been expanded to cover these details. (BZ#378961)
All users are advised to upgrade to this updated numactl package, which
fixes this issue and improves its documentation.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.src.rpm | SHA-256: a219075f202b8ab144bbca2e1bf04090bc9fddb9718f18f46f13bdfd2603b36f |
x86_64 | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 76a9b82b74bd8c7bd6401ded8549b6cb999230e32a2d064f74ef86ae497a29fb |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 76a9b82b74bd8c7bd6401ded8549b6cb999230e32a2d064f74ef86ae497a29fb |
ia64 | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: a0dacb812728de7c14dbfb9cb7e968a23f3488900a27b7f97c784f9c45fa7a54 |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: a0dacb812728de7c14dbfb9cb7e968a23f3488900a27b7f97c784f9c45fa7a54 |
i386 | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.src.rpm | SHA-256: a219075f202b8ab144bbca2e1bf04090bc9fddb9718f18f46f13bdfd2603b36f |
x86_64 | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 76a9b82b74bd8c7bd6401ded8549b6cb999230e32a2d064f74ef86ae497a29fb |
ia64 | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: a0dacb812728de7c14dbfb9cb7e968a23f3488900a27b7f97c784f9c45fa7a54 |
i386 | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.src.rpm | SHA-256: a219075f202b8ab144bbca2e1bf04090bc9fddb9718f18f46f13bdfd2603b36f |
x86_64 | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 76a9b82b74bd8c7bd6401ded8549b6cb999230e32a2d064f74ef86ae497a29fb |
i386 | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 08861219104f4bf25a7ccc88598a9f7327e3e252fabac8a665efd8328af55b3c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.src.rpm | SHA-256: a219075f202b8ab144bbca2e1bf04090bc9fddb9718f18f46f13bdfd2603b36f |
ppc | |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 680a01d93383d8febd3e90e73304a9f8ac92672961015542575f2aa66bbd4a0f |
numactl-0.6.4-1.42.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 54f0814c5de5d749191540e0f04bc65a395e6d802d80804fc2927ab493c77f1a |
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