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   3 Here the status of the work in progress for LTT experimental<br>
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   5 * Done<br>
   6 remove ltt-headers.h<br>
   7 remove ltt-log.h<br>
   8 Put trace->active later in _ltt_trace_start()<br>
   9 ltt_trace_create() remove sleep in spinlock use GFP_ATOMIC kmalloc<br>
  10 Fix the locking of module hooks.<br>
  11 Fix the traps -> disable nested logging for now.<br>
  12 Use per cpu spinlock on trace list.<br>
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  15 * TODO<br>
  16 Finish the control module, libltt and lttctl : netlink interface<br>
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  20 * TODO (low priority)<br>
  21 Integrate header generation (genevent) in kernel build system.<br>
  22 Multithreaded lttd.<br>
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  24 * Need to be discussed<br>
  25 Drop ltt-module-register and ltt-module-unregister, use exported variables.<br>
  26 RelayFS ioctl interface vs control through LTT netlink interface.<br>
  27 drop ltt_filter_control, use functions pointers instead.<br>
  28 Merge facilities headers into one big header.<br>
  29 Change the name of XML files from XML to something else.<br>
  30 Remove ltt-base.c.<br>
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  32 * Not planned for integration<br>
  33 Remove the callback struct from the trace struct.<br>
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  37 * Next experimental release patch division :<br>
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  39 ltt-instrumentation.diff<br>
  40         - ltt-configmenu.diff (put in ltt-core.diff)<br>
  41 ltt-facilities-headers.diff<br>
  42 ltt-facilities-loader.diff<br>
  43 ltt-facilities.diff<br>
  44 ltt-instrumentation.diff<br>
  45 ltt-relayfs.diff<br>
  46 ltt-time.diff<br>
  47 ltt-core.diff<br>
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  50 Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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