ChangeLog

   1 2013-09-20 LTTng modules 2.3.1
   2         * LTTng trace-clock: shrink kernel blacklist
   3         * Blacklist Linux kernels 3.10+
   4
   5 2013-09-03 LTTng modules 2.3.0
   6         * Fix: metadata stream should not reference session
   7         * Fix: btrfs: support 3.11 Linux kernel
   8         * statedump: remove KERN_DEBUG messages
   9         * Fix: ext4: add missing tracepoints for 3.11 kernel
  10         * Fix: ext4: Linux 3.11 support
  11         * Fix: ext3: 3.11 Linux support
  12         * Fix: statedump nsproxy 3.11 Linux support
  13
  14 2013-08-30 LTTng modules 2.3.0-rc2
  15         * Fix: metadata lttng channel refcount
  16         * README: lttng-modules incompatible with lttng 0.x patchset
  17
  18 2013-07-17 LTTng modules 2.3.0-rc1
  19         * Fix: kvm x86 probes side-effect
  20         * Fix: allow get/put subbuf in loop for metadata stream
  21         * Add support for kvm x86 specific tracepoints
  22         * Add mainline headers for kvm x86 tracepoints
  23         * Remove old 3.0.4 x86-64 extracted syscall info
  24         * Point the x86-64 overrides to newly extracted 3.10-rc7 files
  25         * Add syscalls extracted files from a 3.10-rc7 kernel
  26         * Improve documentation of the syscall extractor script
  27         * Fix: double length of __dynamic_len array
  28         * Fix printk instrumentation
  29         * Introduce __dynamic_array_enc_ext_2() and tp_memcpy_dyn_2()
  30         * Fix: ring buffer: get_subbuf() checks should be performed on "consumed" parameter
  31         * Fix: SWITCH_FLUSH new sub-buffer checks
  32         * Fix: ring buffer: handle concurrent update in nested buffer wrap around check
  33         * Cleanup: lib_ring_buffer_switch_new_end() only calls subbuffer_set_data_size()
  34         * Revert "Cleanup: ring buffer: remove lib_ring_buffer_switch_new_end()"
  35         * Fix: handle writes of length 0
  36         * Fix: ring buffer: RING_BUFFER_FLUSH ioctl buffer corruption
  37         * Cleanup: ring buffer: remove lib_ring_buffer_switch_new_end()
  38         * print warning and return -EBUSY on double get_subbuf()
  39         * Add header to fix compilation of syscalls-extractor on 3.9 kernel
  40         * Fix: don't do 0 byte event reservation
  41         * Document that payload size need to be greater than 0
  42         * Fix build and load against linux-2.6.33.x
  43         * Fix: add missing CONFIG_COMPAT around lib_ring_buffer_compat_ioctl
  44         * Metadata cache and multiple metadata channels
  45         * fix block instrumentation probe signature mismatch for 3.9.x kernels
  46         * fix: block instrumentation: NULL pointer dereference
  47         * Update rcu instrumentation to 3.9.[0-4]
  48         * Fix CPU hotplug section mismatches
  49         * Add system calls definitions for powerpc-32
  50         * Remove bashism in lttng-syscalls-generate-headers.sh
  51         * Update ARM (32 bit) syscall tracepoints to 3.4
  52
  53 2013-05-09 LTTng modules 2.2.0-rc2
  54         * Remove useless lttng_metadata probe
  55         * Fix: warning kvm_trace_exit_reason redefined for 3.9 kernel
  56         * Fix: 3.9.0 block layer instrumentation build
  57         * Revert "Stop build if CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is not set"
  58         * Stop build if CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is not set
  59         * Add comments to endifs.
  60         * Fix: remove ARM set_tls system call override
  61         * Cleanup: arm sys_mmap whitespace
  62         * Clean up using global_dirty_limit wrapper for writeback probe
  63
  64 2013-03-29 LTTng modules 2.2.0-rc1
  65         * Update README
  66         * Fix: vmscan instrumentation build
  67         * writeback instrumentation: remove duplicated structures
  68         * block: update instrumentation to 3.9 rc kernel
  69         * rcu: update to 3.9 rc kernel instrumentation
  70         * workqueue instrumentation: remove duplicated structures
  71         * Rename odd event names
  72         * Introduce API to remap event names exposed by LTTng
  73         * lttng-module: sched.h: Fix compilation on 3.9 kernel
  74         * Fix Linux 3.8 btrfs probe warning
  75         * Fix Linux 3.8 ext4 probe support
  76         * Fix 3.8 kernel support: namespace lttng_is_signed_type()
  77         * Fix: don't flush-final for offset 0 if reader is on sub-buffer
  78         * instrumentation sched: add missing fork pid info
  79         * Fix check in lttng_strlen_user_inatomic
  80         * instrumentation: sync with Linux commit a1ce392
  81         * Fix: statedump: missing locking, use lttng_iterate_fd
  82         * Implement lttng_iterate_fd wrapper
  83         * Instrumentation cleanup: kmem events should print hex pointers
  84         * Fix compilation of ext4 and btrfs tracepoints on 2.6.40 kernels
  85         * Fix: statedump hang/too early completion due to logic error
  86         * Fix: statedump hang due to incorrect wait/wakeup use
  87         * put_ulong calls in lib_ring_buffer_compat_ioctl() should be compat
  88         * wrapper/perf.h: Fix kernel version condition
  89         * Add new kernel probes instrumentation
  90         * Update kernel probes to more detailed match to kernel versions
  91         * Fix possible kernel build errors with linux-patches
  92         * Add missing MIT license text to 3 files under this license
  93         * Update sites using kernel version checking macro to new range
  94         * Make upper bound of kernel version checking macro exclusive
  95         * sock instrumentation: fix fields to get referenced values
  96         * ext3 instrumentation: fix of assignment code conversion
  97         * sched instrumentation: rename "pid" fields in sched_process_exec
  98         * Remove remaining semicolons in TP_fast_assign blocks
  99         * Fix compilation for 3.0 kernels that are named 2.6.40
 100         * Fix compilation for 3.0 branch (>= 3.0.39)
 101         * Add kernel version checking macro
 102         * Remove semicolons in TP_fast_assign blocks
 103         * Add ifdefs to net probe to support Linux 2.6.39
 104         * Add kernel probes for supplementary subsystems
 105         * Check if interrupt action name is not null in statedump
 106         * Fix exec instrumentation: only for kernels 3.4.0 and higher
 107         * Add TRACE_EVENT(sched_process_exec) to sched.h
 108         * lib/ringbuffer/frontend_api.h: Include linux/prefetch.h.
 109         * Fix warning with 3.6.0 kernel
 110         * ABI with support for compat 32/64 bits
 111         * Perform calculation on bit size in 64-bit
 112         * Use uint64_t for packet header content size and packet size
 113         * Fix: compat layer only on supported architectures
 114         * Fix ring buffer 32/64 bits compat
 115         * Fix cleanup: move lttng-tracer-core.h include to lib ringbuffer config.h
 116         * Fix ring_buffer_frontend.c: missing include lttng-tracer-core.h
 117         * Fix: statedump missing check for NULL namespace
 118
 119 2012-09-10 LTTng modules 2.1.0-rc1
 120         * fix timestamps on architectures without CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR
 121         * Support for linux kernels 2.6.32 through 2.6.37
 122         * Document limitation of vppid and ppid context wrt eventual RCU instrumentation
 123         * Cleanup: no need to hold RCU read-side lock when reading current nsproxy
 124         * Add env hostname information
 125         * Fix: lttng_statedump_process_state for each PID NS has infinite loop
 126         * lttng_statedump_process_state for each PID NS
 127         * Support the hostname context
 128         * Fix: statedump namespaced pid, tid and ppid
 129         * Fix: statedump: disable vm maps enumeration
 130         * Fix: ensure userspace accesses are done with _inatomic
 131         * Fix: vppid context should test for current nsproxy
 132         * Add MIPS system call support
 133         * Change mode of lttng-syscalls-generate-headers.sh to 755
 134         * cleanup: fix typo in syscall instrumentation header
 135         * Cleanup: remove trailing whitespace in README
 136         * trace event: introduce TP_MODULE_NOAUTOLOAD and TP_MODULE_NOINIT
 137         * LTTng: probe-statedump: add #include <linux/sched.h>
 138         * fix: signal_generate event should print utf8 for comm field
 139         * Makes write operation a parameter for tp_memcpy macro
 140         * Add coding style document
 141         * Update instrumentation/events README file
 142         * Add makefile target for preprocessor
 143         * Fix: free_event_id check should compare unsigned int with -1U
 144         * Use unsigned long type for events discarded counter
 145         * Fix: update signal instrumentation for 3.4 kernel
 146         * LTTng Modules ARM syscall instrumentation
 147         * Fix: generate header missing echo -e for escape chars
 148         * Fix: add missing uaccess.h include (for ARM)
 149         * README: Document that CONFIG_MODULES is required
 150         * Fix: README typo
 151         * Fix: document required and optional kernel config options in README
 152
 153 2012-03-29 LTTng modules 2.0.1
 154         * Fix: is_compat_task !CONFIG_COMPAT compile error on kernels >= 3.3
 155
 156 2012-03-20 LTTng modules 2.0.0
 157         * First STABLE version
 158         * Add version name
 159
 160 2012-03-20 LTTng modules 2.0.0-rc4
 161         * Update README and add version name place-holder
 162
 163 2012-03-16 LTTng modules 2.0.0-rc3
 164         * Fix clock offset 32-bit multiplication overflow
 165         * Fix : wrong assign of fd in state dump
 166         * License cleanup, ifdef namespace cleanup
 167         * Fix: ensure power of 2 check handles 64-bit size_t entirely
 168
 169 2012-03-02 LTTng modules 2.0.0-rc2
 170         * Fix: dmesg printout should not print metadata warnings
 171         * Fix: use transport name as channel name
 172         * Fix: Return -EINVAL instead of print warning if non power of 2 size/num_subbuf
 173
 174 2012-02-20 LTTng modules 2.0.0-rc1
 175         * Standardize version across toolchain
 176         * statedump: Use old macro name for kernel 2.6.38
 177
 178 2012-02-16 LTTng modules 2.0-pre15
 179         * Add timer instrumentation
 180         * fix: need to undef mainline define
 181         * fix: Include signal.h instead of irq.h for prototype match check
 182         * Add signal instrumentation
 183
 184 2012-02-16 LTTng modules 2.0-pre14
 185         * syscall tracing: sys_getcpu
 186         * Add sys_clone x86 instrumentation
 187         * statedump: fix include circular dep
 188         * Implement state dump
 189
 190 2012-02-09 LTTng modules 2.0-pre13
 191         * Update README
 192         * environment: write sysname, release, version, domain to metadata
 193         * Allow open /proc/lttng for read & write
 194
 195 2012-02-02 LTTng modules 2.0-pre12
 196         * Add x86 32/64 execve syscall instrumentation override
 197         * Remove unused defines
 198         * Add padding to ABI
 199         * Use LTTNG_KERNEL_SYM_NAME_LEN
 200         * Update version to 1.9.9
 201         * Add missing double-quotes to clock uuid
 202         * clock: read bootid as clock monotonic ID
 203         * Fix comment
 204         * Cleanup comment
 205         * clock: output clock description in metadata
 206         * Properly fix the timekeeping overflow detection
 207         * Fix init bug
 208         * rename lib-ring-buffer to lttng-lib-ring-buffer
 209         * Remove #warning
 210         * Mass rename: ltt_*/ltt-* to LTTNG_*/LTTNG-*
 211         * Update TODO
 212         * Update TODO
 213         * Remove debugfs file (keep only proc file)
 214         * Rename lttng-debugfs-abi files to lttng-abi
 215
 216 2011-12-13 LTTng modules 2.0-pre11
 217         * Fix OOPS caused by reference of config pointer
 218         * Gather detailed info from x86 64 32-bit compat syscall instrumentation
 219         * lttng lib: ring buffer move null pointer check to open
 220         * lttng lib: ring buffer remove duplicate null pointer
 221         * lttng lib: ring buffer: remove stale null-pointer
 222         * lttng wrapper: add missing include to kallsyms wrapper
 223         * lttng: cleanup one-bit signed bitfields
 224         * Add TODO file
 225         * Update symbol name length max size to 256
 226         * Fix last modifications to string_from_user operations
 227         * Document that depmod needs to be executed by hand
 228         * Fix strlen_user fault space reservation
 229         * Fix tp_copy_string_from_user handling of faults
 230         * Disable block layer tracing support for kernels < 2.6.38
 231         * lttng context: perf counter, fix 32-bit vs 64-bit field size bug
 232         * Update trace clock warning to match the current development plan
 233         * ringbuffer: make ring buffer printk less verbose
 234         * Makefile: do not run depmod manually
 235
 236 2011-09-30 LTTng modules 2.0-pre10
 237         * x86-32: override sys_mmap syscall instrumentation
 238         * Fix cast warning
 239
 240 2011-09-29 LTTng modules 2.0-pre9
 241         * x86 32 syscalls: fix !CONFIG_UID16
 242         * Use __string_from_user
 243         * Add __string_from_user
 244         * Rename "comm" context to "procname"
 245         * Fetch "type" name field for mount syscall
 246         * Create common override file for all architectures
 247         * Shrink stack size usage
 248         * Cleanup: remove unused lttng-compat-syscalls.c file
 249         * Support detailed compat syscalls on x86_64
 250         * Fix syscall table
 251         * Add disabled compat syscalls detail (work in progress)
 252         * Add config compat support for detailed x86_32 syscalls
 253         * Handle newer 3.1+ perf API
 254         * Add dummy x86-32 override headers
 255         * Bind x86-32 syscall headers
 256         * Add x86-32 syscall headers
 257         * Add check for KALLSYMS_ALL in syscall extraction script
 258         * Automate string extraction for syscalls
 259         * Automate syscall filename/pathname extraction
 260         * Add exit to ring_buffer_frontend so module is unloadable
 261         * Add sys_open filename (x86_64)
 262         * Add missing memcpy callback
 263         * copy_from_user and memset
 264         * Add missing alignment after header write
 265         * lib ring buffer: add frontend init as module_init
 266         * lib ring buffer frontend: add missing lock initialization
 267         * ARM: Set bit 0 for thumb mode in kallsyms_lookup_name returned address (missing file)
 268         * ARM: Set bit 0 for thumb mode in kallsyms_lookup_name returned address
 269         * Create override for sys_mmap
 270         * Rename syscalls -> syscall in LTTng ABI
 271         * Use different event name for compat syscalls
 272         * Allow trace syscall table override
 273         * Add dummy override files
 274         * syscall detail: add override capability
 275         * Add pointer pretty-print heuristics
 276         * Add __field_hex
 277         * Rename sys exit errno into ret
 278         * Enable detailed syscalls only for native x86_64
 279         * Use "unknown" for compat syscalls
 280         * Disable x86-64 specific detailed syscalls for now, until we deal with 32-bit compat
 281         * Fix syscall exit
 282         * Fix sys exit
 283         * Only enable detailed syscalls for x86_64 for now
 284         * Merge unknown syscall method with extended detail method
 285         * Add underscore prefix before event names
 286         * Add syscalls pointers detailed syscall tracing
 287         * Use perl for regexp
 288         * Support generation of syscall probes for those with pointers
 289         * Support detailed syscalls with 0 arguments
 290         * detailed syscall tracing (work in progress)
 291         * Expose /proc/lttng file
 292         * Implement detailed syscall event probe
 293         * Disable perf build for < 2.6.33 kernels
 294         * Syscall detail mode: generate syscall table
 295         * block instrumentation: write cmd as hex sequence
 296         * lttng-events TRACE_EVENT generator cleanup
 297         * block layer instrumentation: fix cmd field
 298         * Remove 0 args syscalls for now from type-aware syscall cb generator
 299         * Generate trace syscall table macros
 300         * Put syscall tracing without arg types back in place
 301         * Detailed system call tracing (TRACE_EVENT() generation for integer support)
 302         * lttng events probes: don't clash with "ctx" variable name
 303         * lib ring buffer must take private pointer copy before decrementing refcount
 304
 305 2011-08-16 LTTng modules 2.0-pre8
 306         * Fix metadata buffer wait/wakeup
 307
 308 2011-08-12 LTTng modules 2.0-pre7
 309         * Add missing module refcount to lttng_tracepoint_list_fops
 310         * Add license info about lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_mmap.c being GPLv2