LTTng system call tracing 1) lttng-syscall-extractor You need to build a kernel with CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y and CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y for extraction. Apply the linker patch to get your kernel to keep the system call metadata after boot. Then build and load the LTTng syscall extractor module. The module will fail to load (this is expected). See the dmesg output for system call metadata. 2) Generate system call TRACE_EVENT(). Take the dmesg data and feed it to lttng-syscalls-generate-headers.sh from the instrumentation/syscalls directory. See the script header for usage example. It should be run for both the integers and pointers types. After these are created, you just need to follow the new system call additions, no need to regenerate the whole thing, since system calls are only appended to. 3) Override headers You need to provide override headers (even if they don't contain overrides) for each architecture. Those are meant to contain manual overrides for specific system calls for cases where the script do not generate the correct typing for specific system calls. 4) Integrating the new architecture, updating architecture header Edit instrumentation/syscalls/headers/syscalls_integers.h and syscalls_pointers.h. Add the new architecture (e.g. CONFIG_X86_64) to the newly-generated headers (e.g. changing the current x86-64-syscalls-3.10.0-rc7_.h into x86-64-syscalls-3.13.7_.h), then rebuild lttng-modules.