RHEA-2018:3163 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for memkind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The memkind library is a user-extensible heap manager, built as an extension of the jemalloc memory allocator. This library enables partitioning of the memory heap located between memory types that are defined when the operating system policies are applied to virtual address ranges. In addition, it enables the user to control memory partition features and allocate memory with a specified set of memory features selected.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of memkind are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index