Several major features from the community branch of systemtap would be most conveniently made available to RHEL5 customers by rebasing rather than backporting many individual pieces.
*** Bug 469188 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
qe is acking the rebase
0.9.7
Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: This version of systemtap includes - improvements for user-space probing (shared libraries, experimental DWARF unwinding, <sys/sdt.h> instrumentation) - more support for debuginfo-less operation (@cast operator, kernel tracepoints, kprobe.* probes) - enlarged sample script library, documentation - improved script language features, error messages
Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ -This version of systemtap includes +SystemTap is now fully supported, and has been re-based to the latest upstream version. This update features improved user-space probing through shared libraries, experimental DWARF unwinding, and a new <sys/sdt.h> header file which provides dtrace-compatible markers. -- improvements for user-space probing (shared libraries, experimental DWARF unwinding, <sys/sdt.h> instrumentation) + -- more support for debuginfo-less operation (@cast operator, kernel tracepoints, kprobe.* probes) +This re-base also enhances support for debuginfo-less operations. Typecasting (through the @cast operator) is now supported, along with kernel tracepoint probing. Several 'kprobe.*' probe bugs that hampered debuginfo-less operations are also now resolved. -- enlarged sample script library, documentation + -- improved script language features, error messages+SystemTap also features several documentation improvements. A new '3stap' feature provides users with useful man pages on most SystemTap probes and functions. The systemtap-testsuite package also features a larger library of sample scripts. + +For more information about the SystemTap re-base, please refer to the SystemTap Errata.
Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ SystemTap also features several documentation improvements. A new '3stap' feature provides users with useful man pages on most SystemTap probes and functions. The systemtap-testsuite package also features a larger library of sample scripts. +To work around bug #499677, please run "rmmod uprobes" as root if the system has not been rebooted since an older version of systemtap had run. + For more information about the SystemTap re-base, please refer to the SystemTap Errata.
Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ -SystemTap is now fully supported, and has been re-based to the latest upstream version. This update features improved user-space probing through shared libraries, experimental DWARF unwinding, and a new <sys/sdt.h> header file which provides dtrace-compatible markers. +<para> + <filename>SystemTap</filename> is now fully supported, and has been re-based to the latest upstream version. This update features improved user-space probing through shared libraries, experimental DWARF unwinding, and a new <filename><sys/sdt.h></filename> header file which provides dtrace-compatible markers. + </para> +<para> + This re-base also enhances support for <filename>debuginfo-less</filename> operations. Typecasting (through the @cast operator) is now supported, along with kernel tracepoint probing. Several <filename>'kprobe.*'</filename> probe bugs that hampered <filename>debuginfo-less</filename> operations are also now resolved. +</para> -This re-base also enhances support for debuginfo-less operations. Typecasting (through the @cast operator) is now supported, along with kernel tracepoint probing. Several 'kprobe.*' probe bugs that hampered debuginfo-less operations are also now resolved. +<para> + SystemTap also features several documentation improvements. A new '<filename>3stap</filename>' feature provides users with useful man pages on most SystemTap probes and functions. The <filename>systemtap-testsuite</filename> package also features a larger library of sample scripts. +</para> -SystemTap also features several documentation improvements. A new '3stap' feature provides users with useful man pages on most SystemTap probes and functions. The systemtap-testsuite package also features a larger library of sample scripts. +<para> - +For more information about the SystemTap re-base, please refer to the SystemTap section Package Updates chapter of the Technical Notes. -To work around bug #499677, please run "rmmod uprobes" as root if the system has not been rebooted since an older version of systemtap had run. + </para>- -For more information about the SystemTap re-base, please refer to the SystemTap Errata.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1313.html