ChangeLog

   1 2014-02-14 LTTng modules 2.4.0-rc4
   2         * Fix: use after free in ring buffer clients
   3         * Fix: Add statedump exit so module is not permanent
   4         * Cleanup: move callback init to static initialization
   5         * Fix: OOT lttng-statedump tracepoints not visible with signed kernels
   6
   7 2014-01-29 LTTng modules 2.4.0-rc3
   8         * Fix: tracepoint event name mapping at unregister
   9         * Fix: tracepoint name remapping
  10         * Fix: enable event error path memory corruption
  11         * Update kvm instrumentation to Linux 3.13
  12         * Update sched instrumentation to Linux 3.13
  13         * Fix: provide more precise error report for enable event
  14         * Fix: quote event name in metadata
  15         * Add version info to lttng-tracer.ko modinfo
  16
  17 2013-12-10 LTTng modules 2.4.0-rc2
  18         * Fix: client_packet_header() uses wrong packet
  19         * Cleanup: fix typo in ring buffer backend comment
  20         * Fix: handle unknown event type parameter
  21         * Fix: eliminate timestamp overlap between packets
  22         * gcc blacklist: only apply when building with gcc
  23         * Blacklist ARM gcc 4.8.0, 4.8.1, 4.8.2
  24
  25 2013-11-15 LTTng modules 2.4.0-rc1
  26         * Update ext4 instrumentation to Linux 3.12
  27         * Update RCU instrumentation to Linux 3.12
  28         * Update btrfs instrumentation to 3.12 kernel
  29         * Update vmscan instrumentation to Linux 3.12
  30         * update: kmem instrumentation 3.12 kernel support
  31         * lttng-statedump-impl: Use generic hard irqs for Linux >= 3.12
  32         * lttng-statedump-impl: Fix lttng_list_interrupts for empty implementation
  33         * Import fix from LTSI: 3.4+ RT kernels use CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL
  34         * Add new tracepoint in KVM
  35         * Blacklist kernels 3.10.13 and 3.11.2
  36         * LTTng trace-clock: shrink kernel blacklist
  37         * Metadata flush writes data from the cache
  38         * Per-stream ioctl to get the current timestamp
  39         * LTTng ringbuffer ABI calls for index generation
  40         * Prepare LTTng override of ring buffer fops
  41         * Blacklist Linux kernels 3.10+
  42
  43 2013-09-03 LTTng modules 2.3.0
  44         * Fix: metadata stream should not reference session
  45         * Fix: btrfs: support 3.11 Linux kernel
  46         * statedump: remove KERN_DEBUG messages
  47         * Fix: ext4: add missing tracepoints for 3.11 kernel
  48         * Fix: ext4: Linux 3.11 support
  49         * Fix: ext3: 3.11 Linux support
  50         * Fix: statedump nsproxy 3.11 Linux support
  51
  52 2013-08-30 LTTng modules 2.3.0-rc2
  53         * Fix: metadata lttng channel refcount
  54         * README: lttng-modules incompatible with lttng 0.x patchset
  55
  56 2013-07-17 LTTng modules 2.3.0-rc1
  57         * Fix: kvm x86 probes side-effect
  58         * Fix: allow get/put subbuf in loop for metadata stream
  59         * Add support for kvm x86 specific tracepoints
  60         * Add mainline headers for kvm x86 tracepoints
  61         * Remove old 3.0.4 x86-64 extracted syscall info
  62         * Point the x86-64 overrides to newly extracted 3.10-rc7 files
  63         * Add syscalls extracted files from a 3.10-rc7 kernel
  64         * Improve documentation of the syscall extractor script
  65         * Fix: double length of __dynamic_len array
  66         * Fix printk instrumentation
  67         * Introduce __dynamic_array_enc_ext_2() and tp_memcpy_dyn_2()
  68         * Fix: ring buffer: get_subbuf() checks should be performed on "consumed" parameter
  69         * Fix: SWITCH_FLUSH new sub-buffer checks
  70         * Fix: ring buffer: handle concurrent update in nested buffer wrap around check
  71         * Cleanup: lib_ring_buffer_switch_new_end() only calls subbuffer_set_data_size()
  72         * Revert "Cleanup: ring buffer: remove lib_ring_buffer_switch_new_end()"
  73         * Fix: handle writes of length 0
  74         * Fix: ring buffer: RING_BUFFER_FLUSH ioctl buffer corruption
  75         * Cleanup: ring buffer: remove lib_ring_buffer_switch_new_end()
  76         * print warning and return -EBUSY on double get_subbuf()
  77         * Add header to fix compilation of syscalls-extractor on 3.9 kernel
  78         * Fix: don't do 0 byte event reservation
  79         * Document that payload size need to be greater than 0
  80         * Fix build and load against linux-2.6.33.x
  81         * Fix: add missing CONFIG_COMPAT around lib_ring_buffer_compat_ioctl
  82         * Metadata cache and multiple metadata channels
  83         * fix block instrumentation probe signature mismatch for 3.9.x kernels
  84         * fix: block instrumentation: NULL pointer dereference
  85         * Update rcu instrumentation to 3.9.[0-4]
  86         * Fix CPU hotplug section mismatches
  87         * Add system calls definitions for powerpc-32
  88         * Remove bashism in lttng-syscalls-generate-headers.sh
  89         * Update ARM (32 bit) syscall tracepoints to 3.4
  90
  91 2013-05-09 LTTng modules 2.2.0-rc2
  92         * Remove useless lttng_metadata probe
  93         * Fix: warning kvm_trace_exit_reason redefined for 3.9 kernel
  94         * Fix: 3.9.0 block layer instrumentation build
  95         * Revert "Stop build if CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is not set"
  96         * Stop build if CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is not set
  97         * Add comments to endifs.
  98         * Fix: remove ARM set_tls system call override
  99         * Cleanup: arm sys_mmap whitespace
 100         * Clean up using global_dirty_limit wrapper for writeback probe
 101
 102 2013-03-29 LTTng modules 2.2.0-rc1
 103         * Update README
 104         * Fix: vmscan instrumentation build
 105         * writeback instrumentation: remove duplicated structures
 106         * block: update instrumentation to 3.9 rc kernel
 107         * rcu: update to 3.9 rc kernel instrumentation
 108         * workqueue instrumentation: remove duplicated structures
 109         * Rename odd event names
 110         * Introduce API to remap event names exposed by LTTng
 111         * lttng-module: sched.h: Fix compilation on 3.9 kernel
 112         * Fix Linux 3.8 btrfs probe warning
 113         * Fix Linux 3.8 ext4 probe support
 114         * Fix 3.8 kernel support: namespace lttng_is_signed_type()
 115         * Fix: don't flush-final for offset 0 if reader is on sub-buffer
 116         * instrumentation sched: add missing fork pid info
 117         * Fix check in lttng_strlen_user_inatomic
 118         * instrumentation: sync with Linux commit a1ce392
 119         * Fix: statedump: missing locking, use lttng_iterate_fd
 120         * Implement lttng_iterate_fd wrapper
 121         * Instrumentation cleanup: kmem events should print hex pointers
 122         * Fix compilation of ext4 and btrfs tracepoints on 2.6.40 kernels
 123         * Fix: statedump hang/too early completion due to logic error
 124         * Fix: statedump hang due to incorrect wait/wakeup use
 125         * put_ulong calls in lib_ring_buffer_compat_ioctl() should be compat
 126         * wrapper/perf.h: Fix kernel version condition
 127         * Add new kernel probes instrumentation
 128         * Update kernel probes to more detailed match to kernel versions
 129         * Fix possible kernel build errors with linux-patches
 130         * Add missing MIT license text to 3 files under this license
 131         * Update sites using kernel version checking macro to new range
 132         * Make upper bound of kernel version checking macro exclusive
 133         * sock instrumentation: fix fields to get referenced values
 134         * ext3 instrumentation: fix of assignment code conversion
 135         * sched instrumentation: rename "pid" fields in sched_process_exec
 136         * Remove remaining semicolons in TP_fast_assign blocks
 137         * Fix compilation for 3.0 kernels that are named 2.6.40
 138         * Fix compilation for 3.0 branch (>= 3.0.39)
 139         * Add kernel version checking macro
 140         * Remove semicolons in TP_fast_assign blocks
 141         * Add ifdefs to net probe to support Linux 2.6.39
 142         * Add kernel probes for supplementary subsystems
 143         * Check if interrupt action name is not null in statedump
 144         * Fix exec instrumentation: only for kernels 3.4.0 and higher
 145         * Add TRACE_EVENT(sched_process_exec) to sched.h
 146         * lib/ringbuffer/frontend_api.h: Include linux/prefetch.h.
 147         * Fix warning with 3.6.0 kernel
 148         * ABI with support for compat 32/64 bits
 149         * Perform calculation on bit size in 64-bit
 150         * Use uint64_t for packet header content size and packet size
 151         * Fix: compat layer only on supported architectures
 152         * Fix ring buffer 32/64 bits compat
 153         * Fix cleanup: move lttng-tracer-core.h include to lib ringbuffer config.h
 154         * Fix ring_buffer_frontend.c: missing include lttng-tracer-core.h
 155         * Fix: statedump missing check for NULL namespace
 156
 157 2012-09-10 LTTng modules 2.1.0-rc1
 158         * fix timestamps on architectures without CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR
 159         * Support for linux kernels 2.6.32 through 2.6.37
 160         * Document limitation of vppid and ppid context wrt eventual RCU instrumentation
 161         * Cleanup: no need to hold RCU read-side lock when reading current nsproxy
 162         * Add env hostname information
 163         * Fix: lttng_statedump_process_state for each PID NS has infinite loop
 164         * lttng_statedump_process_state for each PID NS
 165         * Support the hostname context
 166         * Fix: statedump namespaced pid, tid and ppid
 167         * Fix: statedump: disable vm maps enumeration
 168         * Fix: ensure userspace accesses are done with _inatomic
 169         * Fix: vppid context should test for current nsproxy
 170         * Add MIPS system call support
 171         * Change mode of lttng-syscalls-generate-headers.sh to 755
 172         * cleanup: fix typo in syscall instrumentation header
 173         * Cleanup: remove trailing whitespace in README
 174         * trace event: introduce TP_MODULE_NOAUTOLOAD and TP_MODULE_NOINIT
 175         * LTTng: probe-statedump: add #include <linux/sched.h>
 176         * fix: signal_generate event should print utf8 for comm field
 177         * Makes write operation a parameter for tp_memcpy macro
 178         * Add coding style document
 179         * Update instrumentation/events README file
 180         * Add makefile target for preprocessor
 181         * Fix: free_event_id check should compare unsigned int with -1U
 182         * Use unsigned long type for events discarded counter
 183         * Fix: update signal instrumentation for 3.4 kernel
 184         * LTTng Modules ARM syscall instrumentation
 185         * Fix: generate header missing echo -e for escape chars
 186         * Fix: add missing uaccess.h include (for ARM)
 187         * README: Document that CONFIG_MODULES is required
 188         * Fix: README typo
 189         * Fix: document required and optional kernel config options in README
 190
 191 2012-03-29 LTTng modules 2.0.1
 192         * Fix: is_compat_task !CONFIG_COMPAT compile error on kernels >= 3.3
 193
 194 2012-03-20 LTTng modules 2.0.0
 195         * First STABLE version
 196         * Add version name
 197
 198 2012-03-20 LTTng modules 2.0.0-rc4
 199         * Update README and add version name place-holder
 200
 201 2012-03-16 LTTng modules 2.0.0-rc3
 202         * Fix clock offset 32-bit multiplication overflow
 203         * Fix : wrong assign of fd in state dump
 204         * License cleanup, ifdef namespace cleanup
 205         * Fix: ensure power of 2 check handles 64-bit size_t entirely
 206
 207 2012-03-02 LTTng modules 2.0.0-rc2
 208         * Fix: dmesg printout should not print metadata warnings
 209         * Fix: use transport name as channel name
 210         * Fix: Return -EINVAL instead of print warning if non power of 2 size/num_subbuf
 211
 212 2012-02-20 LTTng modules 2.0.0-rc1
 213         * Standardize version across toolchain
 214         * statedump: Use old macro name for kernel 2.6.38
 215
 216 2012-02-16 LTTng modules 2.0-pre15
 217         * Add timer instrumentation
 218         * fix: need to undef mainline define
 219         * fix: Include signal.h instead of irq.h for prototype match check
 220         * Add signal instrumentation
 221
 222 2012-02-16 LTTng modules 2.0-pre14
 223         * syscall tracing: sys_getcpu
 224         * Add sys_clone x86 instrumentation
 225         * statedump: fix include circular dep
 226         * Implement state dump
 227
 228 2012-02-09 LTTng modules 2.0-pre13
 229         * Update README
 230         * environment: write sysname, release, version, domain to metadata
 231         * Allow open /proc/lttng for read & write
 232
 233 2012-02-02 LTTng modules 2.0-pre12
 234         * Add x86 32/64 execve syscall instrumentation override
 235         * Remove unused defines
 236         * Add padding to ABI
 237         * Use LTTNG_KERNEL_SYM_NAME_LEN
 238         * Update version to 1.9.9
 239         * Add missing double-quotes to clock uuid
 240         * clock: read bootid as clock monotonic ID
 241         * Fix comment
 242         * Cleanup comment
 243         * clock: output clock description in metadata
 244         * Properly fix the timekeeping overflow detection
 245         * Fix init bug
 246         * rename lib-ring-buffer to lttng-lib-ring-buffer
 247         * Remove #warning
 248         * Mass rename: ltt_*/ltt-* to LTTNG_*/LTTNG-*
 249         * Update TODO
 250         * Update TODO
 251         * Remove debugfs file (keep only proc file)
 252         * Rename lttng-debugfs-abi files to lttng-abi
 253
 254 2011-12-13 LTTng modules 2.0-pre11
 255         * Fix OOPS caused by reference of config pointer
 256         * Gather detailed info from x86 64 32-bit compat syscall instrumentation
 257         * lttng lib: ring buffer move null pointer check to open
 258         * lttng lib: ring buffer remove duplicate null pointer
 259         * lttng lib: ring buffer: remove stale null-pointer
 260         * lttng wrapper: add missing include to kallsyms wrapper
 261         * lttng: cleanup one-bit signed bitfields
 262         * Add TODO file
 263         * Update symbol name length max size to 256
 264         * Fix last modifications to string_from_user operations
 265         * Document that depmod needs to be executed by hand
 266         * Fix strlen_user fault space reservation
 267         * Fix tp_copy_string_from_user handling of faults
 268         * Disable block layer tracing support for kernels < 2.6.38
 269         * lttng context: perf counter, fix 32-bit vs 64-bit field size bug
 270         * Update trace clock warning to match the current development plan
 271         * ringbuffer: make ring buffer printk less verbose
 272         * Makefile: do not run depmod manually
 273
 274 2011-09-30 LTTng modules 2.0-pre10
 275         * x86-32: override sys_mmap syscall instrumentation
 276         * Fix cast warning
 277
 278 2011-09-29 LTTng modules 2.0-pre9
 279         * x86 32 syscalls: fix !CONFIG_UID16
 280         * Use __string_from_user
 281         * Add __string_from_user
 282         * Rename "comm" context to "procname"
 283         * Fetch "type" name field for mount syscall
 284         * Create common override file for all architectures
 285         * Shrink stack size usage
 286         * Cleanup: remove unused lttng-compat-syscalls.c file
 287         * Support detailed compat syscalls on x86_64
 288         * Fix syscall table
 289         * Add disabled compat syscalls detail (work in progress)
 290         * Add config compat support for detailed x86_32 syscalls
 291         * Handle newer 3.1+ perf API
 292         * Add dummy x86-32 override headers
 293         * Bind x86-32 syscall headers
 294         * Add x86-32 syscall headers
 295         * Add check for KALLSYMS_ALL in syscall extraction script
 296         * Automate string extraction for syscalls
 297         * Automate syscall filename/pathname extraction
 298         * Add exit to ring_buffer_frontend so module is unloadable
 299         * Add sys_open filename (x86_64)
 300         * Add missing memcpy callback
 301         * copy_from_user and memset
 302         * Add missing alignment after header write
 303         * lib ring buffer: add frontend init as module_init
 304         * lib ring buffer frontend: add missing lock initialization
 305         * ARM: Set bit 0 for thumb mode in kallsyms_lookup_name returned address (missing file)
 306         * ARM: Set bit 0 for thumb mode in kallsyms_lookup_name returned address
 307         * Create override for sys_mmap
 308         * Rename syscalls -> syscall in LTTng ABI
 309         * Use different event name for compat syscalls
 310         * Allow trace syscall table override
 311         * Add dummy override files
 312         * syscall detail: add override capability
 313         * Add pointer pretty-print heuristics
 314         * Add __field_hex
 315         * Rename sys exit errno into ret
 316         * Enable detailed syscalls only for native x86_64
 317         * Use "unknown" for compat syscalls
 318         * Disable x86-64 specific detailed syscalls for now, until we deal with 32-bit compat
 319         * Fix syscall exit
 320         * Fix sys exit
 321         * Only enable detailed syscalls for x86_64 for now
 322         * Merge unknown syscall method with extended detail method
 323         * Add underscore prefix before event names
 324         * Add syscalls pointers detailed syscall tracing
 325         * Use perl for regexp
 326         * Support generation of syscall probes for those with pointers
 327         * Support detailed syscalls with 0 arguments
 328         * detailed syscall tracing (work in progress)
 329         * Expose /proc/lttng file
 330         * Implement detailed syscall event probe
 331         * Disable perf build for < 2.6.33 kernels
 332         * Syscall detail mode: generate syscall table
 333         * block instrumentation: write cmd as hex sequence
 334         * lttng-events TRACE_EVENT generator cleanup
 335         * block layer instrumentation: fix cmd field
 336         * Remove 0 args syscalls for now from type-aware syscall cb generator
 337         * Generate trace syscall table macros
 338         * Put syscall tracing without arg types back in place
 339         * Detailed system call tracing (TRACE_EVENT() generation for integer support)
 340         * lttng events probes: don't clash with "ctx" variable name
 341         * lib ring buffer must take private pointer copy before decrementing refcount
 342
 343 2011-08-16 LTTng modules 2.0-pre8
 344         * Fix metadata buffer wait/wakeup
 345
 346 2011-08-12 LTTng modules 2.0-pre7
 347         * Add missing module refcount to lttng_tracepoint_list_fops
 348         * Add license info about lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_mmap.c being GPLv2