Recommended update for rt-tests

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:0070-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Real Time Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Real Time Module 15-SP1

An update that contains one feature can now be installed.

Description:

rt-tests was updated to fix the following issues:

Update to upstream version 1.10 (SLE-12981):

  • rt-tests: queuelat: Remove get_cpuinfo_mhz.sh and old Makefile
  • rt-tests: determine_maximum_mpps.sh: Add a menu to get user settings.
  • rt-numa: Introduce NUMA helpers
  • cyclictest: Only report the first incident
  • Streamline usage and man page

Changes from version 1.9:

  • signaltest: Only print from the first thread stats when quiet
  • rt-tests: cyclictest: Move ftrace helpers into rt-utils.[ch]
  • pi_stress: limit the number of inversion groups to the number of online cores
  • rt-tests: Install new man page get_cyclictest_snapshot.8
  • rt-tests: Add a man page for get_cyclictest_snapshot
  • rt-tests: ptsematest.8: Update the ptsematest man page
  • rt-tests: improvements to the python style in get_cyclictest_snapshot
  • cyclictest: Fix setaffinity error on large NUMA machines

Changes from version 1.8:

  • cyclictest: Make the affinity mask apply to the main thread too
  • Remove support for compiling without NUMA
  • cyclictest: Only run on runtime affinity and user supplied affinity
  • cyclictest: Only run on available cpus according to the affinity
  • cyclictest: Report all errors from pthread_setaffinity_np

Changes from version 1.7:

  • Add get_cyclictest_snapshot to Makefile
  • Add the get_cyclictest_snapshot.py utility
  • determine_maximum_mpps.sh: Fix quoting and other shell issue
  • queuelat: get_cpuinfo_mhz.sh highest value
  • cyclicdeadline: Add a simple manpage for cyclicdeadline

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Real Time Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-RT-15-SP1-2021-70=1
  • SUSE Real Time Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-RT-15-SP2-2021-70=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Real Time Module 15-SP1 (x86_64)
    • rt-tests-debuginfo-1.10-3.6.1
    • rt-tests-debugsource-1.10-3.6.1
    • rt-tests-1.10-3.6.1
  • SUSE Real Time Module 15-SP2 (x86_64)
    • rt-tests-debuginfo-1.10-3.6.1
    • rt-tests-debugsource-1.10-3.6.1
    • rt-tests-1.10-3.6.1

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