- Produces CTF (Common Trace Format) natively,
(http://www.efficios.com/ctf)
-- Function tracer, perf counters and kprobes support,
+- Tracepoints, Function tracer, CPU Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU)
+ counters and kprobes support,
- Integrated interface for both kernel and userspace tracing,
- Have the ability to attach "context" information to events in the
- trace (e.g. any perf counter, pid, ppid, tid, comm name, etc).
- basically, all the extra information fields to be collected with
- events are optional, specified on a per-tracing-session basis
- (except for timestamp and event id, which are mandatory).
+ trace (e.g. any PMU counter, pid, ppid, tid, comm name, etc).
+ All the extra information fields to be collected with events are
+ optional, specified on a per-tracing-session basis (except for
+ timestamp and event id, which are mandatory).
To build and install, you will need to have your kernel headers available (or
access to your full kernel source tree), and use: