[RELEASE] LTTng-modules 2.8.4 and 2.9.1 (Linux kernel tracer)

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Fri Feb 17 2017 - 12:20:47 EST


The LTTng modules provide Linux kernel tracing capability to the LTTng
tracer toolset.

Those are stable branch releases for stable-2.8 and stable-2.9 lttng-modules
branches. Version 2.9.1 adds support for the 4.10 version of the linux kernel
release candidates. The rest are various bugfixes.

Project website: http://lttng.org
Documentation: http://lttng.org/docs
Download link: http://lttng.org/download

Changelog:
2017-02-17 (National Cabbage Day) LTTng modules 2.9.1
* Fix: nmi-safe clock on 32-bit systems
* Fix: only include linux/cpuhotplug.h for kernels >= 4.10
* Fix: 4.10 hotplug adaptation backward compat
* Adapt lttng-modules to Linux 4.10 cpu hotplug state machine
* Fix: 4.10 btrfs instrumentation update backward compat
* Update btrfs instrumentation for 4.10 kernel
* btrfs instrumentation: update to 4.10 kernel
* timer instrumentation: adapt to ktime_t without union
* Fix: asoc instrumentation for RHEL 7.3
* Fix: SCSI instrumentation for SLES12 SP2
* Add SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel version tests

2017-02-17 (National Cabbage Day) LTTng modules 2.8.4
* Fix: nmi-safe clock on 32-bit systems
* Fix: asoc instrumentation for RHEL 7.3
* Fix: SCSI instrumentation for SLES12 SP2
* Add SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel version tests
* Fix: preemptible and migratable context error handling

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com