Re: LTTng 0.10.0-pre23 (fix)

Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:51:48 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.tracing
Message-ID <20071113055148.GA27143@Krystal>
* Mathieu Desnoyers ([email protected]) wrote:
> * Mathieu Desnoyers ([email protected]) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just released lttng 0.10.0-pre22 for Linux 2.6.24-rc2, which adds
> > support for multiple callbacks connected to a single marker. I make
> > extensive use the kernel RCU mechanism so batch connexion of probes to
> > different markers can be done as quickly as possible, requiring to wait
> > for quiescent state only when necessary. It proves to be important when
> > connecting probes on busy systems, where waiting for ~50
> > synchronize_sched() could take about 1-2 minutes.
> > 
> 
> Actually this release is pre21, not pre22.
> 

LTTng 0.10.0-pre23 fixes a bug in an inaccurate assumption that a
function pointer is always aligned on (at least) 2 bytes boundaries.
It's not on some architectures.

Mathieu


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