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forw: minutes 20060427 [stap portion]

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

New RH team member David Smith. From Huntsville. Working on porting
dtrace scripts. dsmith@redhat.com.

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RH summit end of May. Possibly some downtime from RH, at least Frank
will be offline for the week of the summit (May 30), and possibly the
week of May 8th.

Kernel bug with page fault: waiting for Anil, and upstream. We should
be able to get it in before U4 gold.

Ananth: tested kernel 34.22 on power, no obvious problems.
There is a new kernel .24. Link posted.

Xen: there is a dedicated kernel engineer at RH who looks after
"tools" related mods for Xen. 

Ananth: somebody tested kprobes on Ingo's RT patchset. Seems to work
ok. On Ingo's people page there is the patchset. It's applicable to a
mainline kernel.

Roundtable

Martin: Binary printf? Tom is looking at it, but he hasn't finished yet.
At first look didn't seen any issues.

Martin will work next on testsuite for systemtacall tapset and
cleaning up transport a little bit more. There is a test from Kevin.
Martin can use a bit of it. The syscall tapset has changed quite a lot
recently. Can the functional test be used as a basis for a stress
test?  (Run several of them in parallel).

Frank: finding small bugs to address in these few days until need to
concentrate on presentations.

User space probes: will be posted to lkml shortly. Prepare also
justification and support cases before posting to kernel ml.

GUI: there is an initial prototype in the works. How should it be
released?  Screenshots to systemtap mailing list. Tarball as well?
Could the code be added to the sourceware repository. Need to get the
access set up. We could also add a new page to the systemtap website.

F2F: Elena (bad bad bad) forgot to post strawman agenda.  Seems that
first half of June is an Ok time. May is pretty bad because of the RH
summit deadlines.