From b79f82bbde7fd1fb50a6820d5ffabdbe105941ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:46:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update quickstart Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers --- doc/quickstart.txt | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/quickstart.txt b/doc/quickstart.txt index 02f926db6..163544eee 100644 --- a/doc/quickstart.txt +++ b/doc/quickstart.txt @@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ The next sections explain how to do tracing :) Kernel Tracing -------------- -You have to modprobe the lttng-modules manually or the session daemon will do -it for you if those modules can be found on your system. - -Again, you can then start the session daemon (ltt-sessiond) by hand or the -lttng command line tool will do it for you. +You can start the session daemon by invoking the command "ltt-sessiond", +or let the lttng command line tool do it for you. The session daemon +loads the LTTng tracer modules for you if those modules can be found on +your system. If they are not found, the kernel tracing feature will be +unavailable. List available kernel events: @@ -136,8 +136,9 @@ you need to use 'ustctl' to control user-space tracing. Reading a trace -------------- -To read your trace, you can use babeltrace which will text dump your the -trace. Please see http://www.efficios.com/ctf and git tree +The tool "Babeltrace" can be used to dump your binary trace into a +human-readable text format. Please see +http://www.efficios.com/babeltrace and git tree http://git.efficios.com/?p=babeltrace.git # babeltrace -n $HOME/lttng-traces/mysession--