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Re: Is there a roadmap for the STAP development?
- From: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- To: Arkady <arkady dot miasnikov at gmail dot com>, systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:13:14 -0600
- Subject: Re: Is there a roadmap for the STAP development?
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On 02/14/2017 12:51 AM, Arkady wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am considering some patches for SystemTap - mostly fixing minor
> inconveniences. Obviously I would like to align the efforts and,
> hopefully merge the patches into the master. Is there a document
> describing the SystemTap development roadmap?
Hmm, not that I know of. Some items of future development are tracked as
enhancements in sourceware's bugzilla.
> Examples of things I would like to extend
>
> * Add build only flag in the stap utility which does not require root privileges
Different from '-p4'?
> * Add RPM spec file supporting automatic build of the kernel driver
> after kernel updates
What do you mean by "the kernel driver"?
> * In the _stp_reserve_bytes() return indication that the trace buffer
> is overwritten
> * Add support for zero copy data transfer
You'd have to flesh those last two items out a bit for me to understand
what you are looking to do.
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