All of the commits mentioned in #1 have been merged upstream and will be present in 4.8-rc1. v4.8 is the target kernel for Ubuntu 16.10. As such, I believe no further work is required for this feature. The mainline daily builds for v4.8 should appear soon after v4.8-rc1 is released.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585742 Title: [ubuntu 16.10] Enable perf to probe and record on SDT events present in binaries Status in linux package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in linux source package in Yakkety: In Progress Bug description: This is a feature request for 16.10: SDT events are markers placed at important places in the binaries. When they are probed and traced, they can give valuable information about the userspace application. This feature aims to enable perf to probe/record on SDT events. Patches are being currently sent : https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/14/107 patchset for probe-cache and initial SDT support https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/3/810 patch to directly record on SDT events. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1585742/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
