Enhancement Advisory rt-setup and rt-tests enhancement update

Advisory: RHEA-2009:1170-1
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-07-22
Last updated on: 2009-07-22
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise MRG v1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 5)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated packages that add enhancements are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise MRG 1.1.

This update is for the following packages:

* rt-tests is a set of programs that test and measure various components of
real-time kernel behavior. Measures include timer latency, signal latency,
hardware latency and the functioning of priority-inheritance mutexes.

* rt-setup configures settings required by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
realtime environment, such as creating the realtime group, adding realtime
user privileges to PAM (Pluggable Authentication Models), enabling the
configuration of kdump in realtime, and disabling irqbalance by default.

These updated packages add the following enhancements:

* the rt-tests module was added to the hwlatdetect script. This is to allow
access to the hardware latency detector module delivered in RT kernels (BZ
#512213)

These updated packages fix the following bugs:

* the real-time clock was unable to be opened. This was caused by an
incorrect udev rule. The rule was fixed, and the real-time clock now opens
as expected (BZ #510121)

* the nice value specified in the limits.d/realtime.conf file was set to a
value outside the valid range. This default value has now been changed so
to a valid value (BZ #479228)

Users of the Realtime capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise MRG are advised
to upgrade to these updated rt-setup and rt-tests packages, which add these
enhancements.


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

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise MRG v1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 5)

SRPMS:
rt-setup-1.4-1.el5rt.src.rpm     22695f76b6aa2eca7af69b662fc2142d
rt-tests-0.50-1.src.rpm     b9c630b080a80de6cfade2389da3feed
 
IA-32:
rt-setup-1.4-1.el5rt.noarch.rpm     a9983bc24a3d85b96477e9456a63c951
rt-tests-0.50-1.i386.rpm     604b5e112036e73844a86f67490a982c
 
x86_64:
rt-setup-1.4-1.el5rt.noarch.rpm     a9983bc24a3d85b96477e9456a63c951
rt-tests-0.50-1.x86_64.rpm     ba3256e8601c97276eb7438520c8a0ee
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

479228 - limits.conf nice value incorrect
512213 - update rt-tests to pick up hwlatdetect



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