Recommended update for cpupower

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:0485-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for cpupower fixes the following issues:

  • Fix for aperf/mperf monitoring on latest AMD Rome CPUs and prevent showing wrong CPU information. (bsc#1152967)
  • Fix for showing proper frequency information for all available CPUs. (bsc#1141729)
  • Fix for listing available CPU governors incompletely. (bsc#1117709)

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-485=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • cpupower-debuginfo-4.19-6.5.1
    • libcpupower0-debuginfo-4.19-6.5.1
    • cpupower-4.19-6.5.1
    • libcpupower0-4.19-6.5.1
    • cpupower-debugsource-4.19-6.5.1
    • cpupower-devel-4.19-6.5.1

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