Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:12:35 -0400 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | [RELEASE] LTTng development snapshot 20110430 for kernel 2.6.38.4 |
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LTTng, the Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation, is a project that aims at producing a highly efficient full system tracing solution. It is composed of several components to allow tracing of the kernel, of userspace, trace viewing and analysis and trace streaming. LTTng is open source software. It is being actively developed with the community.
* LTTng development snapshot 20110430 for kernel 2.6.38.4
- This is an update the the development snapshot of the next LTTng generation (that would probably make it LTTngng, LTTnng or LTT(ng)^2) for kernel 2.6.38.4. The goals of this development phase are as follows:
1) The size of the kernel patchset has been shrinked for Linux distributions by removing all LTTng-specific instrumentation from the tree.
2) The lttng-modules package now implements an ABI based on anonymous file descriptors (inspired from perf) rather than the full-blown VFS tree the previous LTTng versions were implementing.
3) lttng-modules now exports trace data and metadata in the CTF (Common Trace Format).
4) lttng-modules now uses the Generic Ring Buffer Library.
The kernel tree snapshot is available as a tarball at: http://lttng.org/files/lttng/patch-2.6.38.4-lttng-dev-snapshot-20110430.tar.bz2
Please note that the patches within this patchset are elected as the first items from the LTTng project to eventually get into the mainline Linux kernel. This includes TRACE_EVENT() changes, the LTTng trace clocks and the Generic Ring Buffer Library.
The LTTng kernel patchset is needed to build the current lttng-modules git tree (a kernel module package). To fetch it:
git clone git://git.lttng.org/lttng-modules.git
Work is ongoing for the new unified LTTng/UST user interface. The current development can be found at: http://git.lttng.org/?p=lttng-tools.git
Thanks,
Mathieu
-- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com
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