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Re: Release announcement suggestions for 0.7
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Mark Wielaard <mwielaard at redhat dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:02:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: Release announcement suggestions for 0.7
- References: <1213821169.3134.14.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org>
Mark Wielaard <mwielaard@redhat.com> writes:
> [...]
> I listed all the bugs fixes since 0.6.2, plus their resolution. But I
> think I will remove the ones that are marked DUPLICATE, INVALID,
> WORKSFORME and WONTFIX since they are probably not really interesting.
Makes sense.
> There are lists of test results (make installcheck) on various systems I
> had access to. The 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 results don't look that good
> though and are from a qemu-kvm instance. On real hardware I have not
> been able to get a full make installcheck run because the machine will
> randomly hang. Till now I have been unable to get to the bottom of this
> issue (and strangely in a virtual environment everything seems fine).
IMO we should consider this mysteriosity as a "blocker" for the
release. Could you try a 2.6.24 kernel on the same hardware &
systemtap version?
> [...]
> For a full overview see the stapex(5) manual page.
(I believe that this man page does not contain any information about
the separate example script files. It probably should.
> - Stack backtraces for x86 and x86-64 are generated by a dwarf
> debuginfo-based unwinder [...]
(This part is under maintenance and may be premature to announce
until e.g. it works for userspace.)
> - Inclusion of Compile server (stap-server) and Compile server client
> (stap-client).
These parts are brand new prototypes.
> = Know issues with this release:
> <FIXME>
The hangs on 2.6.25 would be one. :-(
- FChE