X-Git-Url: http://git.lttng.org./?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ltt%2Fbranches%2Fpoly%2FQUICKSTART;h=1cc95dc7fe3115639bd1ba85db1651b20eb3d403;hb=daa38dd50179effd7ccffa889cb2239dde155ace;hp=40c36d925a170afcc5ad91726cbbae3b3b1d858f;hpb=ff15f6a6655b8877cbf8dea5c16a3c0a7b0d7cef;p=lttv.git diff --git a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART index 40c36d92..1cc95dc7 100644 --- a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART +++ b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ What you will typically want is to read sections 1 and 3 : install LTTng from binary packages and use it. If there are no packages ready for your system, you will have to install from sources (section 2) instead. -These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.5.6 tracer on a +These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.5.18 tracer on a linux 2.6.15 kernel. You will also find instructions for installation of LTTV 0.8.x : the Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer. @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ PowerPC Author : Mathieu Desnoyers, September 2005 -Last update : January 10, 2006 +Last update : February 10, 2006 *********************************************************** @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ Last update : January 10, 2006 ** NOTE : RPM and debian packages are only made once a version has been thoroughly tested. If they do not exist at the moment, please install from - sources (see section 2 below). + sources (see section 2 below). To see the list of compatibilities between + LTTng, LTTv, genevent and lttng-modules, please refer to + http://ltt.polymtl.ca > LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility * Install from RPM packages on Fedora Core 4 : @@ -185,10 +187,10 @@ su - mkdir /usr/src/lttng cd /usr/src/lttng (see http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng for package listing) -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/lttng-modules-0.4.tar.bz2 -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6.tar.bz2 -bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - -bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/lttng-modules-0.5.tar.bz2 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18.tar.bz2 +bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.5.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - * Getting LTTng kernel sources @@ -198,15 +200,15 @@ cd /usr/src wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - cd linux-2.6.15 -cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6* | patch -p1 +cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18* | patch -p1 cd .. -mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6 +mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 * Installing a LTTng kernel su - -cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6 +cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config) Select the < Help > button if you are not familiar with kernel configuration. @@ -237,15 +239,15 @@ make install reboot - Select the Linux 2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6 kernel in your boot loader. + Select the Linux 2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 kernel in your boot loader. * Install the ltt-modules su - -cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.4 -KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6 make -KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6 make modules_install +cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.5 +KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 make +KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 make modules_install * Editing the system wide configuration @@ -268,18 +270,40 @@ space. This is done by issuing the command : modprobe ltt-control +If you want to have complete information about the kernel state (including all +the process names), you need to load the ltt-statedump module. This is done by +issuing the command : + +modprobe ltt-statedump + You can automate at boot time loading the ltt-control module by : echo ltt-control >> /etc/modules +echo ltt-statedump >> /etc/modules + + +* Getting and installing the ltt-control package (on the traced machine) + +su - +cd /usr/src +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/ltt-control-0.1-11032006.tar.gz +gzip -cd ltt-control-0.1-11032006.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd ltt-control-0.1-11032006 +(refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you +system) +./configure +make +make install -* Getting and installing the LTTV package +* Getting and installing the LTTV package (on the visualisation machine, same or + different from the visualisation machine) su - cd /usr/src -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.5-17012006.tar.gz -gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.5-17012006.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.5-17012006 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.31-11032006.tar.gz +gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.31-11032006.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.31-11032006 (refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you system) ./configure @@ -343,8 +367,8 @@ see lttv -m textDump --help for detailed command line options of textDump. su - cd /usr/src wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.6.tar.gz -gzip -cd genevent-0.6.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd genevent-0.6 +gzip -cd genevent-0.8.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd genevent-0.8 make make install @@ -358,14 +382,14 @@ cp process.xml yourfacility.xml cd /tmp /usr/local/bin/genevent /usr/local/share/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer/facilities/yourfacility.xml cp ltt-facility-yourfacility.h ltt-facility-id-yourfacility.h \ - /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6/include/linux/ltt + /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/include/linux/ltt cp ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.c ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.h \ - /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6/ltt + /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/ltt * edit the kernel file you want to instrument - Add #include at the beginning of the file. - Add a call to the tracing functions. See their names and parameters in - /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.6/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h + /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h