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 0.5.3 tracer on a
+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.
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-0.5.3.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-0.5.3.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
+bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
* Getting LTTng kernel sources
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-0.5.3* | patch -p1
+cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4* | patch -p1
cd ..
-mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.3
+mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4
* Installing a LTTng kernel
su -
-cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.3
+cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4
make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config)
Select the < Help > button if you are not familiar with kernel
configuration.
reboot
- Select the Linux 2.6.15-lttng-0.5.3 kernel in your boot loader.
+ 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-0.5.3 make
-KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.3 make modules_install
+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
* Editing the system wide configuration
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-0.5.3/include/linux/ltt
+ /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4/include/linux/ltt
cp ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.c ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.h \
- /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.3/ltt
+ /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4/ltt
* edit the kernel file you want to instrument
- Add #include <linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h> 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-0.5.3/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h
+ /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h