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beaverton meeting action items
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:58:27 -0500
- Subject: beaverton meeting action items
Hi -
This is the list of action items collected ... exactly one week ago.
I will create bugzilla entries for mine; others please do likewise.
Given the somewhat uneven distribution of assignments, people looking
for things to do are hereby encouraged to yank interesting items from
anyone's queue, especially in the "NEW" (unstarted) state.
Anil: Cost analysis of static instrumentation and dormant vs. active
Brad: Review brad's test plan with stress testing in mind, take charge
Brad: update tool to find external references
Elena: 169485 bugzilla (gcc)
Elena: enable builds of stap for ia64 and ppc
Elena: find RH "volunteer" for usbmon rewrite
Elena: make available RH RHEL4 kernel for U3 with rcu patch
Frank: Check whether stap could generate jprobes? Dwarf2 may be insufficient
Frank: Don't recompile probes if not necessary.
Frank: Integrate elfutils build into stap build
Frank: NUMA aware memory allocation - alloc per-cpu memory
Frank: Publish static instrumentation idea
Frank: User-level static instrumentation for Java, etc.
Frank: arch specific preprocessor directive in language
Frank: commit translator presentation to cvs
Frank: remove printk calls from probe boilerplate
Frank: update bugs
Graydon: Evaluate => operator for kernel->user ptr deref
Graydon: Investigate extraction of per cpu stats
Hien: enlarge ppc64-specific test suite in cvs
Hitachi: Develop & publish kretprobe booster
Hitachi: Quantify performance improvements for binary vs ascii trace data
Hitachi: algorith for detection whether a djprobe can be places
Hitachi: publish kprobe booster patches
Hitachi: publish sample tapsets, get CVS access
Jim: Kprobes on Xen
Jim: Update kprobes status page on website
Jim: kprobes sysrq disarming
Larry: iotop rewrite
Martin: Investigate boottime probing via stap
Prasanna/Jim: user probes & retprobes
Prasanna: provide debug-register-allocation patch to Roland for possible incorporation into ptrace rewrite
Vara: Document compiled C-tapset design
Vara: Investigate authoring procedure for IBM redbook
Vara: LKML monitoring and digest posted at the end of the week (rotating among partners)
Vara: Talk to Mel Gorman regarding memory fragmentation
Vara: enumerate replaceable monitoring tools
Will: Port kprobes tests to dejagnu