[lttng-dev] [RELEASE] LTTng modules 2.8.1 (Linux kernel tracer)

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

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

This is a bugfix release.

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

Changelog:
2016-10-03 (National Techies Day) LTTng modules 2.8.1
        * Fix: handle large number of pages or subbuffers per buffer
        * Fix: unregister cpu hotplug notifier on buffer alloc error
        * Fix: sa_family is of type unsigned short
        * Fix: check for sizeof sa_family to save sa_family in accept and connect
        * Cleanup: reuse code in accept() and accept4() instrumentation
        * Add x86-64 override for accept4 syscall
        * Fix: use printk_once() for wrapper warning messages
        * Fix: btrfs instrumentation for 4.8 kernel
        * Fix: update mm_vmscan instrumentation for kernel 4.8
        * Fix: napi instrumentation for 4.8 kernels
        * Fix: update block instrumentation to compile on 4.8 kernels
        * Fix: timer wrapper: support kernels >= 4.8
        * Fix: x86-64 accept instrumentation
        * Fix: Add support for 4.6.4-rt8 kernel
        * Fix: update scsi instrumentation for 4.7+ kernels
        * Fix: Use fs_initcall instead of rootfs_initcall
        * Fix: Add kernel configuration for lttng clock plugin
        * Fix: the clock plugin must be initiated before first use of the clock
        * Fix: tests/Kbuild for older kernels
        * Fix: annotate bytecode interpreter for kernel stack validator
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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com