[lttng-dev] [RELEASE] LTTng modules 2.1.0

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

The LTTng modules provide Linux kernel tracing capability to the LTTng
2.0 tracer toolset.

Highlights of the 2.1 lttng-modules release:

* Added ARM system call tracing,
* Added MIPS system call tracing,
* Some enhancements to the state dump,
* Support for older kernels: 2.6.32 up to 2.6.37 with up to 3 kernel
  patches in linux-patches/ directory of the tree. (in addition to
  2.6.38 up to 3.7.1)

Changelog since LTTng modules 2.1.0-rc1:
2012-12-20 (13th Baktun) LTTng modules 2.1.0
        * put_ulong calls in lib_ring_buffer_compat_ioctl() should be compat
        * wrapper/perf.h: Fix kernel version condition
        * Fix possible kernel build errors with linux-patches
        * Add missing MIT license text to 3 files under this license
        * Check if interrupt action name is not null in statedump
        * Fix exec instrumentation: only for kernels 3.4.0 and higher
        * Add TRACE_EVENT(sched_process_exec) to sched.h
        * lib/ringbuffer/frontend_api.h: Include linux/prefetch.h.
        * Fix warning with 3.6.0 kernel
        * ABI with support for compat 32/64 bits
        * Perform calculation on bit size in 64-bit
        * Use uint64_t for packet header content size and packet size
        * Fix: compat layer only on supported architectures
        * Fix ring buffer 32/64 bits compat
        * Fix cleanup: move lttng-tracer-core.h include to lib ringbuffer config.h
        * Fix ring_buffer_frontend.c: missing include lttng-tracer-core.h
        * Fix: statedump missing check for NULL namespace

Project website: http://lttng.org
Download link: http://lttng.org/download
(please refer to the README files for installation instructions and
lttng-tools doc/quickstart.txt for usage information)

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com