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authorDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2009-09-14 17:47:26 -0400
committerDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2009-09-14 17:47:26 -0400
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Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
Conflicts: aclocal.m4 configure doc/SystemTap_Tapset_Reference/Makefile.in testsuite/aclocal.m4 testsuite/configure
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* What's new
+- Memory consumption for scripts involving many uprobes has been
+ dramatically reduced.
+
- The preprocessor now supports || and && in the conditions.
%( arch == "x86_64" || arch == "ia64" %: ... %)
@@ -68,6 +71,11 @@
SYSTEMTAP_RUNTIME, SYSTEMTAP_TAPSET, SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH
- nss and nss-tools are required to use this feature.
+- A new experimental transport mechanism, using ftrace's ring_buffer,
+ has been added. This may become the default transport mechanism in
+ future versions of systemtap. To test this new transport mechanism,
+ define 'STP_USE_RING_BUFFER'.
+
* What's new in version 0.9.9
- Systemwide kernel .function.return (kretprobe) maxactive defaults may