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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:49:40 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r212567 - head
Message-ID:  <201009131749.o8DHneFS020665@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: rpaulo
Date: Mon Sep 13 17:49:39 2010
New Revision: 212567
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212567

Log:
  Add a note about userland DTracing.
  
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
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  M    UPDATING

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Mon Sep 13 17:30:29 2010	(r212566)
+++ head/UPDATING	Mon Sep 13 17:49:39 2010	(r212567)
@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.
 	machines to maximize performance.  (To disable malloc debugging, run
 	ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
 
+20100913:
+	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
+	now i386 and amd64 only.
+	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
+	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
+	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
+	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
+	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
+	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
+
 20100725:
 	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
 	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.



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