2001-11-12 13:16:39

by Vamsi Krishna S.

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Subject: [Announce] Dynamic Probes v3.1 Released

Dynamic Probes v 3.1 is released.

Dynamic Probes is a generic and pervasive debugging facility that will
operate under the most extreme software conditions such as debugging a
deep rooted operating system problem in a live environment.

The latest version of Dynamic Probes. It can be downloaded from:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/dprobes/


Brief Changelog:

- fix kernel BUG in page_alloc.c that is triggered sometimes when the
dprobes module (dp.o) is being removed
- fix to dr_alloc to make more than one watchpoint work
- fix to do_query (segfault on IA64)
- alloc only smp_num_cpu (not NR_CPUS) pages for aliasing
- update README to include module installation instructions
- add Configure.Help entries
- version/date updates to man pages

* If you are using v3.0 of DProbes, we recommend you to upgrade to this
version.

Regards.. Vamsi.

Vamsi Krishna S.
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Lab, Bangalore.
Ph: +91 80 5044959
Internet: [email protected]