[lttng-dev] [RELEASE] LTTng modules 2.5.6, 2.6.3, 2.7.0-rc2

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

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

This announces bugfix releases across the three stable branches:
stable-2.5 (near EOL), stable-2.6, and stable-2.7 (in release candidate
stage).

Changelog:

2015-09-09 LTTng modules 2.7.0-rc2
        * Use 3.18 syscall instrumentation for MIPS32
        * Update the MIPS32 syscall instrumentation to 3.18
        * Fix: Move pipe override to the arch specific pointers_override.h
        * Implement lttng test module
        * Cleanup: remove logically dead code
        * Fix: filter validator use after free
        * Fix: use after free in channel release
        * Fix: non-enabler events should be disabled by default
        * Fix: build failure on 2.6.36
        * Cleanup: split bdi_dirty_ratelimit with ifdef into separate macros
        * Fix: writeback instrumentation for 4.2 kernels
        * Fix: kmem probe with Ubuntu 3.13 kernels
        * Fix: disable kvm probe if lapic.h isn't found
        * Fix: timer instrumentation for 4.2 kernels
        * Fix: ext4 instrumentation for 4.2 kernels
        * Fix: kvm instrumentation for 4.2 kernels
        * Fix: mm_page_alloc_extfrag instrumentation for kernel 3.18.10
        * Fix: allow LTTng to be built within kernel tree

2015-09-09 LTTng modules 2.6.3
        * Fix: use after free in channel release
        * Fix: build failure on 2.6.36
        * Fix: writeback instrumentation for 4.2 kernels
        * Fix: mm_page_alloc_extfrag instrumentation for kernel 3.18.10
        * Fix: kmem probe with Ubuntu 3.13 kernels
        * Fix: disable kvm probe if lapic.h isn't found
        * Fix: timer instrumentation for 4.2 kernels
        * Fix: ext4 instrumentation for 4.2 kernels
        * Fix: kvm instrumentation for 4.2 kernels
        * Fix: allow LTTng to be built within kernel tree
        * Fix: Building the event list fails on fragmented memory
        * Fix: use after free on metadata cache reallocation

2015-09-09 LTTng modules 2.5.6
        * Fix: use after free in channel release
        * Fix: build failure on 2.6.36
        * Fix: Update kmem event for Ubuntu's 3.16 kernel
        * Fix: Update kmem event for recent Ubuntu kernel
        * Fix: kmem probe with Ubuntu 3.13 kernels
        * Implement wrapper around get_pfnblock_flags_mask
        * Fix: Building the event list fails on fragmented memory
        * Fix: use after free on metadata cache reallocation

Project website: http://lttng.org
Documentation: http://lttng.org/docs
Download link: http://lttng.org/download

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com