DTrace release for 20110320

This release includes compile and run fixes for Linux 2.6.38 and
Fedora Core 14 (possibly 15 as well).

FC14 has a broken libelf.so implementation whereby the functions
elf_getshdrstrndx() and elf_getshstrndx() are mapped to the same code
but this is broken, since the only difference between them is the
return code for success. (I really detest these two functions - they
are almost impossible to read/parse since the names are so similar
and palindromic).

I have a couple of bug reports to note. On FC14, even when dtrace
is not running, there are some kernel GPFs caused by the hrtimer_interrupt
firing and doing a smp_call_function. It doesnt seem to harm the system.
(Nicely, the desktop shows an alarm since the kernel problem is detected).
Maybe FC14 has validation turned on for cross-cpu function calls.

I loaded up dtrace on 2.6.38 (outside of a VM) and it crashed the
system - so be careful/wary. (It might crash on 2.6.37 as well, but I cant
remember if I tested it).

I could do with modifying the build scripts to tell you which packages
are missing depending on the distro you are using, but its a fine balance
to expend the effort to work out whats needed from a virgin install.


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