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Bug 845657

Summary: Man page for numactl does not accurately describe the localalloc option.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Travis Gummels <tgummels>
Component: man-pages-overridesAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.3CC: azelinka, isenfeld, ovasik, pschiffe
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ManPageChange, Patch
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: localalloc option on the numactl(8) manual page was not described properly Consequence: confusing documentation Fix: described localalloc option on the numactl(8) manual page more verbosely Result: clear documentation
Story Points: ---
Clone Of:
: 881779 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-21 10:54:18 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:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 832743, 881779, 886216    
Attachments:
Description Flags
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Description Travis Gummels 2012-08-03 19:12:18 UTC
Description of problem:

Man page for numactl does not accurately describe the localalloc option.

       --localalloc, -l
              Always allocate on the current node.

The assumption the customer makes, which seems reasonable, is that --localalloc would imply: MPOL_BIND.  The documentation for numactl could be clearer that --localalloc falls back to the system default which is local allocation.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
As shipped with RHEL 6.3

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
LLNL requests that all bugs logged on their behalf be public facing.

Comment 4 Petr Holasek 2012-11-23 14:55:32 UTC
Created attachment 650480 [details]
--localalloc option manpage patch

Comment 5 Petr Holasek 2012-11-23 15:02:10 UTC
Created attachment 650485 [details]
--localalloc option manpage patch

Comment 6 Petr Holasek 2012-11-23 15:08:43 UTC
Created attachment 650486 [details]
--localalloc option manpage patch

Comment 7 Petr Holasek 2012-11-23 15:13:13 UTC
Created attachment 650487 [details]
--localalloc option manpage patch

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 10:54:18 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0464.html