Recommended update for cpupower

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:3517-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for cpupower fixes the following issue:

  • Add AMD Family 19h support. (bsc#1177394)

Family 19h processors have the same RAPL (Running average power limit) hardware register interface as Family 17h processors. Change the family checks to succeed for Family 17h and above to enable core and package energy measurement on Family 19h machines.

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-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-3517=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • cpupower-5.5-6.3.1
    • cpupower-devel-5.5-6.3.1
    • libcpupower0-debuginfo-5.5-6.3.1
    • cpupower-debugsource-5.5-6.3.1
    • libcpupower0-5.5-6.3.1
    • cpupower-debuginfo-5.5-6.3.1

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