Recommended update for rt-tests

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:2262-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Real Time Module 15-SP1

An update that contains one feature can now be installed.

Description:

This update for rt-tests fixes the following issues:

Update to version 1.6 (jsc#SLE-12981)

  • New feature to get a snapshot of a running instance of cyclictest without stopping it by sending SIGUSR2 to the PID and reading a shared memory segment. This is especially useful if running cyclictest over a long period of time
  • Add SPDX tags V3
  • New programs to the rt-tests suite
    • queuelat: simulates a network queue checking for latency violations in packet processing.
    • cyclicdeadline: used to test the deadline scheduler (SCHED_DEADLINE)
    • deadline_test: tests the deadline scheduler in a cyclictest manner
    • ssdd: a tracer to do a bunch of PTRACE_SINGLESTEPs

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-SP1-2020-2262=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Real Time Module 15-SP1 (x86_64)
    • rt-tests-debuginfo-1.6-3.3.1
    • rt-tests-debugsource-1.6-3.3.1
    • rt-tests-1.6-3.3.1

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