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Minutes of 9/8/05
- From: Kevin Stafford <kevinrs at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:15:54 -0700
- Subject: Minutes of 9/8/05
Minutes of SystemTap Conference Call, Sept. 8, 2005
Participants:
IBM:
Ananth Mavinakayanahalli (mananth@in.ibm.com -- Boston)
Jim Keniston (jkenisto@us.ibm.com -- Beaverton)
Hien Nguyen (nguyhien@us.ibm.com -- Beaverton)
Kevin Stafford (kevinrs@us.ibm.com -- Beaverton)
Prasanna Panchamukhi (prasanna@in.ibm.com -- Bangalore)
Maneesh Soni (maneesh@in.ibm.com -- Bangalore)
Red Hat:
Elena Zannoni (ezannoni@redhat.com -- Boston)
Will Cohen (wcohen@redhat.com -- Raleigh)
Martin Hunt (hunt@redhat.com -- Seattle)
Frank Eigler (fche@redhat.com -- Toronto)
Graydon Hoare (graydon@redhat.com -- Vancouver)
Intel:
Anil KeshavaMurthy (anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com -- Hillsboro)
Josh Stone
Charles Spirakis (charles.spirakis@intel.com)
Actions Required (ARs):
>From 5/19/05:
19. Vara: Collect sample kprobes modules and post them to the
SystemTap web site.
22. Rusty: Look into x86_64 limitation re: temporary disarming of
reentrant probes.
23. Jim, Martin: Ensure that the runtime's stack-trace feature works
appropriately when there are return probes in the call stack.
[Update: Martin is working on this. Jim will prototype an improvement
whereby the saved IP is updated before the handler is called.]
>From 6/9/05:
26. Rusty/Brad: Forward email address of Intel test person to Jay
Turner. [Update: As of 7/7/05, Brad hasn't done this. Did Rusty?]
>From 6/23/05:
30. Rusty: Review Will's rendition of Rusty's test that exercises
probes on a wide variety of instruction types. [Update: As of 7/7/05,
Will still needs to hear back from Rusty.]
>From 7/7/05:
39. Ananth: Summarize the status of the ppc64 runtime port for Martin.
[Update 8/17/05: Jose Santos of the IBM pSeries performance team will
complete the port.]
>From 7/28/05:
41. Anil: Post a summary of known djprobes implementation issues.
>From 8/4/05:
43. Prasanna: Post work on user-space probes. [Update: Design is
under review at IBM. This is deferred until after current SystemTap
test/debug push.]
>From 8/11/05:
44. Tom: Automate relayfs tests and post them to mailing list.
[Update: In progress]
>From 8/18/05:
48. Elena, Vara: Manage planning of next face-to-face meeting.
50. Jim: Characterize the problem(s) we've seen when probing
schedule(). [DONE: #1229 is fixed by Ananth and Anil.]
53. Anil: Test RCU-based SMP scalability feature on ia64.
>From 8/25/05:
54. Vara: Report on availability of tech writer(s) at IBM to help
with user documentation.
55. Elena: Investigate approaches to making the full SystemTap bug
list available to SystemTap developers outside Red Hat.i
>From 9/8/05:
56. Will: Integate RH testsuite as part of std distro tests (rather
than local system testing).
57. Martin: Runtime build issues fix.
58. Ananth: Work on resolving PPC64 runtime issues.
59: Elena: Send out editable OLS slides
60: Will: Check into CVS - htdocs
61: Kevin: Post FC4 SystemTap installation instructions.
Translator freeze is set for end of next week (9/16).
RH team is continuing work on resolving translator bugs.
The Runtime has build errors, Martin will look into a fix.
Ananth is taking over work on the PPC64 shortcomings:
-runtime problems
-elfutils (dot prefix)
Anil will start ia64 testing this week.
SystemTap Installation:
casual fc4 users simply "yum update systemtap"
developers: Kevin will post howto doc to build
SystemTap from src.
RHEL4 users: "up2date systemtap"
Insufficient debug info breaks some core functionalities
when running a stock kernel.
Possible fix: use -g option (make cflags+=-g or make -g)
perfmon/perfctr wars are over. Api controversy is settled:
Michael would like to go forward with perfmon.
See CVS for new SystemTap samples.
--
Kevin Stafford
DES 2 | MS 2M3
Beaverton - OR
Linux Technology Center
IBM Systems & Technology
Phone: 1-503-578-3039
Email: kevinrs@us.ibm.com