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SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6.
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Revision 150 (latest revision is 151)
Tony Jones's avatar Tony Jones (jones_tony) accepted request 1181374 from Tony Jones's avatar Tony Jones (jones_tony) (revision 150)
- Upgrade to version 5.1. See systemtap.changes for changelog 
- Upgrade to version 5.1. See systemtap.changes for changelog 
- Upgrade to version 5.1. See systemtap.changes for changelog 
- Update to version 5.1
  Summary of changes:
  * SystemTap frontend (stap) changes
    - An experimental "--build-as=USER" flag to reduce privilege during
      script compilation, which is a security improvement effort.
    - New probe-points for userland hardware breakpoints/watchpoints
      targeting processes (PR31180):
        probe process.data(ADDRESS).write
        probe process.data(ADDRESS).rw
        probe process.data(ADDRESS).length(LEN).write
        probe process.data(ADDRESS).length(LEN).rw
    - Support for stap --remote=bpf.
    - Improved searching heuristics for probing symbol names with/without
      symbol-version suffixes and with/without weak names.
    - Made long-running debuginfod downloads more cleanly interruptible.
    - Improved stap-prep heuristics for finding debuginfo for "-rt"
      (real-time) kernels.
  
  * SystemTap backend changes
    - Dynamic namespace switching for processes targeted via "-x PID",
      allowing processes running within containers to be probed.
    - Improved message transport robustness for heavy traffic (individual
      messages spanning pages) and for short runs (avoiding loss of
      last-gasp messages).
    - Added MTAG macro on several internal memory allocation routines
      to improve leak warnings.  Corrected a bunch of leaks.
    - "stap -t" now reports module initialization timings too.
    - Ported runtime for GCC14 compatibility, with its more recent C
      dialect warnings.
    - Support for DW_OP_bra in DWARF location lists, which makes a few
      more $context variables accessible to systemtap.
  
  * SystemTap tapset changes
    - Portability fixes for more recent kernels, as always.
    - set_kernel_string* tapset functions improved range checking.
    - print_ubacktrace_fileline() works with PIE binaries.
    - Many portability improvements and some fixes in the testsuite.
    - Enhancements for the tcp, nfs, memory tapsets.
  Drop following patches (upstream):
    - bpf-translate.cxx-fix-build-against-upcoming-gcc14.patch
    - get-shm_flag-defines-from-the-appropriate-include-file-for-linux-6.8-kernel.patch
    - pr31288-build-with-gcc14-cont.patch
    - pr31288-build-with-gcc14.patch
    - pr31373-deal-with-the-removal-of-strlcpy-from-linux-6.8.patch
    - staprun-fix-build-against-upcoming-gcc14.patch
    - stapvirt.c-more-gcc-14-werror-calloc-transposed-args-compatibility.patch
Comments 4

William Brown's avatar

Is there a timeframe for when 4.2 this will be released to factory? On newer kernels 4.2 is required to resolve a code generation with fallthroughs in case switch. Thanks,


Tony Jones's avatar

Talk to the BS people. RIght now it's in review.
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/754799


Tony Jones's avatar

Also, that code gen issue was already fixed in Factory. Try updating to the latest package.


Tony Jones's avatar

Look ar r118 which is already in Factory. It contains this change (to v4.1) which was dropped by the upgrade to v4.2

Thu Nov 7 18:18:07 UTC 2019 - Tony Jones tonyj@suse.com

  • Add support for gcc -Wimplicit-fallthrough to resolve compilation errors of the form "this statement may fall through" New patch: systemtap-support-wimplicit-fallthrough-vsprintf.patch New patch: systemtap-support-wimplicit-fallthrough-gen_map.patch
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