[ltt-dev] [RELEASE] Userspace RCU library 0.4.4

[Jon Bernard]

* Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj at krystal.dyndns.org> wrote:
> * Jon Bernard (jbernard at debian.org) wrote:
> > * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The Userspace RCU library 0.4.4 (available at http://lttng.org/urcu) includes an
> > > atomic operations fix for the 32-bit (and 64-bit) powerpc architectures, where
> > > the 4-byte cmpxchg was using a cmpd rather than the appropriate cmpw
> > > instruction.
> > > 
> > > It did cause illegal instruction faults on powerpc 32.
> > 
> > I think it would be useful to have the test scripts included in future
> > release tarballs so users can easily run the test suite via the check
> > target. I believe including runall.sh, runtests.sh, and
> > runtests-batch.sh from the tests subdirectory is all that would be
> > necessary.
> 
> Actually, it's in version 0.4.4 already. Only runall.sh is executed,

I do not see them in the userspace-rcu-0.4.4 tarball. They are certainly
present in the repository, I believe the dist/release target just needs
updating to include those necessary shell scripts at release time.

-- 
Jon