Turn base address dump into experimental feature
authorPaul Woegerer <paul_woegerer@mentor.com>
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:02:00 +0000 (10:02 +0100)
committerMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:04:15 +0000 (08:04 -0500)
Instead of having base address state dump enabled by default make it
necessary to explicitly enable it with environment variable
LTTNG_UST_WITH_EXPERIMENTAL_BADDR_STATEDUMP.

Documentation is updated to reflect this change and explain about the
experimental nature of this feature.

Signed-off-by: Paul Woegerer <paul_woegerer@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
doc/man/lttng-ust.3
liblttng-ust/lttng-ust-baddr.c

index 2fb287ac5a62beb9cd02bf475c8e2cc9b44be452..2c58fba19197cbfe1fc89d86f3f328b1c6cf3f69 100644 (file)
@@ -366,9 +366,13 @@ Pthread identifier. Can be used on architectures where pthread_t maps
 nicely to an unsigned long type.
 .PP
 
-.SH "BASE ADDRESS STATEDUMP"
+.SH "BASE ADDRESS STATEDUMP (Experimental feature)"
 
 .PP
+Warning: This is an experimental feature known to cause deadlocks when the
+traced application uses fork, clone or daemon. Only use it for debugging and
+testing.  Do NOT use it in production.
+
 If an application that uses liblttng-ust.so becomes part of a session,
 information about its currently loaded shared objects will be traced to the
 session at session-enable time. To record this information, the following event
@@ -405,8 +409,8 @@ specified in milliseconds. The value 0 means "don't wait". The value
 recommended for applications with time constraints on the process
 startup time.
 .PP
-.IP "LTTNG_UST_WITHOUT_BADDR_STATEDUMP"
-Prevent liblttng-ust to perform a base-address statedump on session-enable.
+.IP "LTTNG_UST_WITH_EXPERIMENTAL_BADDR_STATEDUMP"
+Experimentally allow liblttng-ust to perform a base-address statedump on session-enable.
 .PP
 
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
index 922899b44e50406042d47480e713686350a3c703..dec7e82d6e9c84afb065a1d33ec9ea0f53760c5c 100644 (file)
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ int lttng_ust_baddr_statedump(void *owner)
 {
        struct extract_data data;
 
-       if (getenv("LTTNG_UST_WITHOUT_BADDR_STATEDUMP"))
+       if (!getenv("LTTNG_UST_WITH_EXPERIMENTAL_BADDR_STATEDUMP"))
                return 0;
 
        data.owner = owner;
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