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<h1>Recommended update for perf</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2025:1244-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-04-14T11:10:29Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234698">bsc#1234698</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239906">bsc#1239906</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12309">jsc#PED-12309</a>
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</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">Development Tools Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6</li>
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<p>An update that contains one feature and has two fixes can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for perf fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>perf tools: annotate asm_pure_loop.S (bsc#1239906).</li>
<li>libperf cpumap (bsc#1234698 jsc#PED-12309):<ul>
<li>Grow array of read CPUs in smaller increments</li>
<li>Remove use of perf_cpu_map__read()</li>
<li>Be tolerant of newline at the end of a cpumask</li>
<li>Hide/reduce scope of MAX_NR_CPUS</li>
<li>Ensure empty cpumap is NULL from alloc</li>
<li>Rename perf_cpu_map__empty() to
perf_cpu_map__has_any_cpu_or_is_empty()</li>
<li>Rename perf_cpu_map__default_new() to
perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus() and prefer sysfs</li>
<li>Rename perf_cpu_map__dummy_new() to
perf_cpu_map__new_any_cpu()</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>perf pmu: Remove use of perf_cpu_map__read() (bsc#1234698 jsc#PED-12309).</li>
<li>perf cpumap: Reduce transitive dependencies on libperf
MAX_NR_CPUS (bsc#1234698 jsc#PED-12309).</li>
<li>perf: Increase MAX_NR_CPUS to 4096 (bsc#1234698 jsc#PED-12309).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
</p>
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<li class="list-group-item">
openSUSE Leap 15.6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-1244=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-1244=1</code>
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<li class="list-group-item">
Development Tools Module 15-SP6
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP6-2025-1244=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
<ul>
<li>perf-devel-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-gtk-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-debugsource-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-bash-completion-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-gtk-debuginfo-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-debuginfo-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Development Tools Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>perf-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-debuginfo-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-devel-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
<li>perf-debugsource-6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.15.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<h2>References:</h2>
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<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234698">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234698</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239906">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239906</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12309">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12309</a>
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