Bug 1565773
| Summary: | rebase systemtap in RHEL 7.6 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | David Smith <dsmith> |
| Component: | systemtap | Assignee: | Frank Ch. Eigler <fche> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Cermak <mcermak> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | Vladimír Slávik <vslavik> |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.6 | CC: | bgollahe, fche, jistone, lberk, mcermak, mjw, vslavik |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Rebase |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | systemtap-3.3-1.el7 | Doc Type: | Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements |
| Doc Text: |
_systemtap_ rebased to version 3.3
The _systemtap_ packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.3, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements:
* Limited support for the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) tracing on the Intel64 and AMD64 architectures has been added. Use the `--runtime=bpf` option to use eBPF as a backend. Due to numerous limitations of `eBPF` and its SystemTap interface, only simple scripts work. For more information, see the Knowledge article https://access.redhat.com/articles/3550581 and the stapbpf(8) manual page.
* The `--sysroot` option has been optimized for cross-compiled environments.
* A new `--example` option allows you to search the example scripts distributed with SystemTap without providing the whole path of the file.
* The SystemTap runtime and tapsets are compatible with kernel versions up to 4.17.
* Usage of SystemTap on systems with real time kernel or machines with a high number of CPUs has been improved.
* Handling of code used for Spectre and Meltdown attack mitigation has been improved.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2018-10-30 10:46:00 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1311586 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1505884 | ||
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Description
David Smith
2018-04-10 18:20:49 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:3168 |