Updates

Sat Jun 18 22:45:04 2005  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>

	* TODO: Updates

	* configure.ac: Check for Linux 2.6.11

	* process.c (get_pidname): Present pid=-1 as [kernel].

	* module/sysprof-module.c: Use register_timer_hook() instead of
	a kernel timer. Set trace.pid to -1 if interrupt happens in
	kernel.

TODO

@@ -14,11 +14,17 @@ Before 1.0:
    - Announce on Advogato
    - Announce on gnome-announce
    - Announce on devtools list (?)
-	
-Before 1.2:
 
+Before 1.2:
+	
 * See if the auto-expanding can be made more intelligent
 
+* Send entire stack to user space, then do stackwalking there
+
+* If interrupt happens in kernel mode, send both
+  kernel stack and user space stack, have userspace stitch them
+  together.
+
 * Correctness
 	- When the module is unloaded, kill all processes blocking in read
 		- or block unloading until all processes have exited
@@ -41,13 +47,17 @@ Before 1.2:
 	UI: "generate screenshot" menu item pops up a window with
 	a text area + a radio buttons "text/html". When you flick
 	them, the text area is automatically updated.
+
 - Fixing the oops in kernels < 2.6.11
 
+	- Probably just require 2.6.11 (necessary for timer interrupt
+          based anyway).
+
 	- Make the process waiting in poll() responsible for extracting
 	  the backtrace. Give a copy of the entire stack rather than doing
 	  the walk inside the kernel. That would allow us to do more complex 
-	  algorithms in userspace (though we'd lose the ability to do non-racy
-	  file naming).
+	  algorithms in userspace. Though we'd lose the ability to do non-racy
+	  file naming. We could pass a list of the process mappings though.
 
 		New model:
 			- Two arrays, 
@@ -201,6 +211,9 @@ http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/booksets/LSB-Embedded/LSB-Embedded/ehframe.html
 
 Later:
 
+- See if it is possible to group the X server activity under the process that
+  generated it.
+
 - .desktop file
 	[Is this worth it? You will often want to start it as root, 
 	 and you will need to insert the module from the command line]
@@ -348,6 +361,8 @@ Later:
 
 DONE:
 
+* Timer interrupt based
+
 * Interface
 	- Consider expanding a few more levels of a new descendants tree 
 		- Algorithm should be expand in proportion to the