X-Git-Url: http://git.lttng.org./?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ltt%2Fbranches%2Fpoly%2FQUICKSTART;h=6b75cb8bc3bf44cdcd51f39cf666b5a4340bd57f;hb=985184b8e6237d01a0b2a550f444e3c9bef1674d;hp=45047024e21ccae2ed0892ee16f73135ebb390ab;hpb=d2b865656a92ffeb12769a9b9b71d312b8b6eb91;p=lttv.git diff --git a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART index 45047024..6b75cb8b 100644 --- a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART +++ b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART @@ -13,9 +13,15 @@ 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 0.5.4 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. +These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.5.X tracer on a +linux 2.6.X kernel. You will also find instructions for installation of +LTTV 0.8.x : the Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer. + +To see the list of compatibilities between LTTng, ltt-control, LTTV, genevent +and lttng-modules, please refer to : +http://ltt.polymtl.ca > LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility + + The following lttng patch is necessary to have the tracing hooks in the kernel. The following ltt-control module controls the tracing. @@ -30,17 +36,20 @@ sources, the dependencies are listed. LTTng : supported architectures : Intel Pentium (UP/SMP) with TSC +PowerPC 32 and 64 bits +ARM +C2 Microsystems (variant of MIPS) LTTV : supported architectures : Intel i386 and better Intel 64 bits -PowerPC +PowerPC 32 and 64 bits Author : Mathieu Desnoyers, September 2005 -Last update : January 10, 2006 +Last update : May 23, 2006 *********************************************************** @@ -49,7 +58,9 @@ 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, ltt-control, LTTV, genevent and lttng-modules, please refer to + http://ltt.polymtl.ca > LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility * Install from RPM packages on Fedora Core 4 : @@ -157,7 +168,7 @@ o module-init-tools 0.9.10 # depmod -V You might also want to have libncurses5 to have the text mode kernel configuration menu, but there are alternatives. -Prerequisites for LTTV 0.6.x installation are : +Prerequisites for LTTV 0.x.x installation are : gcc 3.2 or better gtk 2.4 or better development libraries @@ -185,28 +196,26 @@ 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-0.5.4.tar.bz2 -bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - -bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx.tar.bz2 +bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - * Getting LTTng kernel sources su - 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-0.5.4* | patch -p1 +wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 +bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +cd linux-2.6.16 +cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx* | patch -p1 cd .. -mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4 +mv linux-2.6.16 linux-2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx * Installing a LTTng kernel su - -cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4 +cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config) Select the < Help > button if you are not familiar with kernel configuration. @@ -221,7 +230,8 @@ make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config) is compiled built-in or as a module. activate : [*] Align Linux Trace Toolkit Traces - do NOT activate (not ready yet) : + [*] Allow tracing from userspace + your choice (see < Help >) : [ ] Activate Linux Trace Toolkit Heartbeat Timer You may or may not activate instrumentation per facility. They are all selected for logging by default. It can be used as a compile time filter to @@ -237,15 +247,7 @@ make install reboot - Select the Linux 2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4 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-0.5.4 make -KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4 make modules_install + Select the Linux 2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx kernel in your boot loader. * Editing the system wide configuration @@ -268,18 +270,41 @@ 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) +(note : the ltt-control package contains lttd and lttctl. Although it has the +same name as the ltt-control kernel module, they are *not* the same thing.) +su - +cd /usr/src +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006.tar.gz +gzip -cd ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006 +(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-0.8.4-10012006.tar.gz -gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.4-10012006.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.4-10012006 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.x.xx-xxxx2006.tar.gz +gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.x.xx-xxxx2006.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.x.xx-xxxx2006 (refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you system) ./configure @@ -342,9 +367,9 @@ see lttv -m textDump --help for detailed command line options of textDump. su - cd /usr/src -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.4.tar.gz -gzip -cd genevent-0.4.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd genevent-0.4 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.xx.tar.gz +gzip -cd genevent-0.xx.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd genevent-0.xx make make install @@ -358,14 +383,14 @@ 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-0.5.4/include/linux/ltt + /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx8/include/linux/ltt cp ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.c ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.h \ - /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4/ltt + /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx/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-0.5.4/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h + /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-lttng-0.x.xx/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h