Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:16:26 -0400 | | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | | Subject | Building a tracing userspace tool in the kernel tree |
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Hi Sam,
At the kernel summit, people seemed to be interested to have the basic userspace tools required to extract and pretty-print a trace available within the kernel tree. Therefore, what I am trying to do is something along the lines of
ltt/usr/ ltt/usr/tracectl/ (control tracing) ltt/usr/tracesplice/ (splice buffers to disk) ltt/usr/tracecat/ (merge sort and format the binary buffers into human-readable text)
That would however require to create a Makefile which behaves a little bit like what scripts/ is currently doing with hostprogs-y, only that it's different in the sense that those tools are not required to build the kernel and this could therefore become a more standard part of the build process than what scripts/ is.
Is there some magic statements to put in Makefile and ltt/Makefile to get this to build nicely with the rest of the tree ?
Thanks,
Mathieu
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