Browse other questions tagged c pthreads solaris mutex atomic or ask your own question. It delivers support for next generation enterprise systems, including oracle sparc servers as listed in the oracle sparc processor roadmap. We missed one required solaris patch that may have impacted the database. Oracle solaris and fujitsu sparc enterprise systemsintegrated and. Solaristm 10 sparc not x86 oracle fibre channel fc. Security vulnerabilities in the solaris priority inherited. Since i can not test on solaris, i asked them to test on solaris, and ibraheem did that. These patches are required for the proper operation. Sparc and solaris will live until at least 2019 the register. Platformsolaris cdt services ca dept of technology ca. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
Overview the remainder of this paper is divided into two chapters. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. It really should just be here because it is for comment. I now have a mostlyworking solaris 6 emulation, with great thanks to the valuable information in artyoms blog, and the qemu solaris 4. Frequently asked questions sparc t81, t82, t84, and m88 servers overview. In the same time period of the launch, oracle is also launching. Sparc and solaris will live until at least 2019 oracle reveals three generations of silicon and solaris 12 release schedule. Here i am crossposting a comment i made on artyoms blog.
Hi all, i have tried using that xarchv9 in my build. By default, the endpoint will reboot if any installed patch requires it. Sun has released a security patch addressing the following issues. I am trying to build apache qpid on a sparc running solaris 10. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Resolution this issue is resolved in the following releases. A solaris 10 issue may prevent this patch from complete installation. Several operating system patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in the oracle developer studio 12.
Resolution this issue is addressed in the following releases. Before installing this vm patch, install the solaris patch 11925470 or a later revision. Apply the latest available solaris 10 update release during the next major. Solaris 10 kernel patchid sequence oracle solaris blog. Our unix system admin has left the company and unfortunately for the time being im the man. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Your cheat sheet for cocktail banter at oracles upcoming shindig. Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. Installation prerequisites a solaris 10 issue may prevent this patch from complete installation. A particular lock structure gets copied to the local stack memory. The patch should leave the cas code intact when being compiled on v9 type sparc systems. Thus i believe further testing is necessary to verify this is actually working.
Is there a way to find out if a patch has been applied. If the file gets attached, it is a patch file to enable mutex atomic operation sparc assembler code for sparc v9linux systems for testing, along with a new source file for srciceutil to implement these operations. Furthermore, the ability to install most patches and other incremental. If i had realized i could attach a file outside the patch threads, i would not have put it there. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. Atar responded that he fixed these issues for some customers. When an application using the mutex lock or rw lock in the way shown below is executed. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards.
Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4 immediately on systems running sunos 5. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. Emulex fc hba version not applicable to not applicable release na qlogic fc hba version not applicable to not applicable release na. Enterprise servers, system interruption rates can be reduced by as much as 35 40 percent1. Many developers are writing applications to run under the linux operating system. What does relocation illegal when not bound to object being created mean. A vulnerability was reported in solaris pollwakeup9f. On the components tab, add the following items to component group 1 and ensure they are ordered as listed here. Openscad compiling for 64 bit sparc solaris 10 page 4. My media servers are oracle databases ebusiness suite and for other 3rd party app the unix and linux forums.
Experienced solaris users may remember the old maintenance updates mu which we shipped for solaris 8 and older releases. Unless you transition to oracle solaris 10 extended support, you will not be able. Operating system patches for oracle solaris 10 are provided for the oracle developer studio 12. Oracle solarissparcv8 stricter mutex alignment requirements. To use all features of the oracle vm server for sparc 3. The solaris 10 508 patch bundle, which is now available on sunsolve ill add a blog entry about it later, provides the equivalent set of patches to the solaris 10 508 release image, but does \not\ include new packages. Installing the required oracle solaris 10 patches oracle. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Idrs lock down the packages to which they apply to prevent them from. One or more solaris patch fixlets available in the.
There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris. Primepower and sparc enterprisesolaris tm patches check this page for solaris tm operating system patches and addon products in order to ensure that the patch. Solaris tm 10 sparc not x86 oracle fibre channel fc hba driver and firmware san patch matrix doc id 11825. However, we have patches for nonnetbsd platforms in pkgsrc, and this patch was worked on by the two people mentioned earlier. If the file gets attached, it is a patch file to enable mutex atomic operation sparc assembler code for sparc v9linux systems for testing, along with a new source file for srciceutil to. Users are reporting that the patches are causing issues an an alarming rate, examples can. A local user can cause denial of service conditions. All sparc chips have an instruction called ldstub, which means. These results show that with 10 threads, the amount of work affects how much faster atomics are. This solaris patch fixes packaging, installation and patch. Comparison of solaris os and linux for application developers. Apply patch 11996321 to solaris 10 sparc the unix and. I need to know if he installed kernel patch 10364005 and thread patch 10392005 before i can.
The oracle solaris scalable processor architecture sparc platform hosting service is a cdt managed service. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. One must note that the fix in solaris is a tentative one that allows the noncomplying code to run on sparc hardware for the time being. Oracle solaris 10 1 is the latest update to oracle solaris 10.
The oracle solaris 10 1 patch list contains a list of patches preapplied to the oracle solaris 10 1 release. I hoped that opening a bug to the opensource project might help develop the solution for the public domain. Mail about any other subject will be silently ignored. Ive attached a revised patch, retested on sparc solaris 2. The following list shows the sparc based patches for this release. Enterprise servers, system interruption rates can be reduced by as much as 3540 percent1. Those who cannot upgrade to solaris 10 1008 from the prior versions of solaris 10 must wait for the patch ku updated 120708 7707 7709. Patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle solaris 10. We also figured out that network cards on sparc e25ks can only do about 50,000 interrupts per. This service provides customers with standardized oracle sparc server hardware, oracle solaris operating system configurations, and the deployment, management, and administration of oracle solaris software applications.
These patches are quite old, so it is worth upgrading the patch level to 10364020 or later. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. On solaris 10, the solaris patch 12022206 is a minimum version that has. The 1 ms sleeps are 10 times shorter then waits used by patch 6904068 and default mutex wait scheme 2. With truss running, the system call rate dropped to about 12,000 calls per. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular.
Cdt managed services for virtual server uses oracle solaris sparc logical. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. When i use adb to generate the stack trace on the box, i get the following trace. So, i just though of using the latest bdbxml hoping that it will support me. Backing out the affected patches to resolve this issue is not advised since these kernel patches deliver many other security fixes that are required to protect your system. With the many new features of the solaris 10 os, and with the new emphasis sun has placed on supporting the solaris os on amd and intel processorbased machines, developers are becoming interested in being able to develop their applications on the solaris platform. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Multithreading in the solaris operating environment. Required software and patches oracle vm server for. A security vulnerability in the solaris socket3socket.
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