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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 15 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | git_version.sh | 4 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -21,6 +21,21 @@ Probing of absolute statements can be done using the kprobe.statement(ADDRESS).absolute construct. +- EXPERIMENTAL support for user process unwinding. A new collection of + tapset functions have been added to handle user space backtraces from + probe points that support them (currently process and timer probes - + for timer probes test whether or not in user space first with the + already existing user_mode() function). The new tapset functions are: + uaddr - User space address of current running task. + usymname - Return the symbol of an address in the current task. + usymdata - Return the symbol and module offset of an address. + print_ustack - Print out stack for the current task from string. + print_ubacktrace - Print stack back trace for current task. + ubacktrace - Hex backtrace of current task stack. + Please read http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2009-q2/msg00364.html + on the current restrictions and possible changes in the future and + give feedback if you want to influence future developments. + * What's new in version 0.9.5 - New probes process().insn and process().insn.block that allows diff --git a/git_version.sh b/git_version.sh index d39d96c9..d7945d71 100755 --- a/git_version.sh +++ b/git_version.sh @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ fi # Detect git tools (should work with old and new git versions) git_found=yes -for git_tool in git-symbolic-ref git-rev-parse git-diff-files git-diff-index git +for git_tool in git-symbolic-ref git-rev-parse git-diff-files git-diff-index git git-describe do if [ x`which $git_tool 2>/dev/null` = "x" ]; then git_found="'$git_tool' not found" @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ if [ "x$git_repo_dir" != "x" ] && [ "x${abs_repo_dir}" = "x${abs_srcdir}/.git" ] git_repo=yes if [ "x$git_found" = "xyes" ]; then # git-1.4 and probably earlier understand "git-rev-parse HEAD" - git_shaid=`git-rev-parse HEAD | $SED -n 's/^\(.\{8\}\).*/\1/p'` + git_shaid=`git-describe` if [ "x$git_shaid" = "x" ]; then git_errors="${git_errors+${git_errors}; }error running 'git-rev-parse HEAD'" fi |