From: compudj Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 06:53:07 +0000 (+0000) Subject: update QUICKSTART X-Git-Tag: v0.12.20~1966 X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c78dc8ff7be25ff42ad23c328d1b06b9e0b2ff8;p=lttv.git update QUICKSTART git-svn-id: http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn@1523 04897980-b3bd-0310-b5e0-8ef037075253 --- diff --git a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART index 40c36d92..94db2faa 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. @@ -185,10 +185,10 @@ 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 +198,15 @@ 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 +237,15 @@ 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 +268,25 @@ 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 LTTV package 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-0.8.13-07022006.tar.gz +gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.13-07022006.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.13-07022006 (refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you system) ./configure @@ -343,8 +350,8 @@ 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 +365,14 @@ 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