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diff --git a/LTTngManual.html b/LTTngManual.html
index 020a7270..10978001 100644
--- a/LTTngManual.html
+++ b/LTTngManual.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation Manual
Author : Mathieu Desnoyers, September 2005
-Last update : January 30, 2010
+Last update : September 3, 2010
(originally known as the LTTng QUICKSTART guide)
Table of Contents
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ packages from the LTTng and LTTV sources.
These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.86 tracer on a linux 2.6.X
kernel. You will also find instructions for installation of LTTV 0.12.x : the
Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer.
-To see the list of compatibilities between LTTng, ltt-control, LTTV, please
-refer to :
+To see the list of compatibilities between the LTTng kernel patchset, LTTng
+modules, ltt-control, LTTV, please refer to :
LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility
+href="http://lttng.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=lttv.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/developer/lttng-lttv-compatibility.html;hb=HEAD">LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility
The ongoing work had the Linux Kernel Markers integrated in the mainline Linux
kernel since Linux 2.6.24 and the Tracepoints since 2.6.28. In its current
@@ -194,8 +194,7 @@ libc6 development librairies
See the list of compatibilities between LTTng, ltt-control and LTTV at :
LTTng+LTTV
-versions compatibility.
+href="http://lttng.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=lttv.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/developer/lttng-lttv-compatibility.html;hb=HEAD">LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility.
@@ -204,9 +203,11 @@ versions compatibility.
su -
mkdir /usr/src/lttng
cd /usr/src/lttng
-(see http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng for package listing)
-wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx.tar.bz2
+(see http://lttng.org/files/lttng for package listing)
+wget http://lttng.org/files/lttng/patch-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx.tar.bz2
+wget http://lttng.org/files/lttng/lttng-modules-0.x.tar.bz2
bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
+bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.x.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
@@ -241,20 +242,7 @@ make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config)
Select the following options :
[*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
[*] Activate markers
- [*] Activate userspace markers ABI (experimental, optional)
[*] Immediate value optimization (optional)
- [*] Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation (LTTng) --->
- <M> or <*> Compile lttng tracing probes
- <M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit High-speed Lockless Data Relay
- <M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit Lock-Protected Data Relay
- <M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit Serializer
- <M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit Marker Control
- <M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit Tracer
- [*] Align Linux Trace Toolkit Traces
- <M> or <*> Support logging events from userspace
- [*] Support trace extraction from crash dump
- <M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit Trace Controller
- <M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit State Dump
Select <Exit>
Select <Exit>
Select <Yes>
@@ -283,6 +271,22 @@ Select the Linux 2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx kernel in your boot loader.
--
+
+
+
+
+su -
+cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.x
+KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx make
+KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx make modules_install
+
+Optionally, make can be prefixed with tracer options:
+
+EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DLTT_DEBUG_EVENT_SIZE" make
+EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DLTT_VMCORE" make
+EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DLTT_DEBUG_EVENT_SIZE -DLTT_VMCORE" make
+
+
@@ -313,7 +317,6 @@ compile statically, you may not need to issue all these commands.
modprobe ltt-trace-control
modprobe ltt-marker-control
modprobe ltt-tracer
-modprobe ltt-serialize
modprobe ltt-relay
modprobe ipc-trace
modprobe kernel-trace
@@ -324,6 +327,7 @@ modprobe jbd2-trace
modprobe ext4-trace
modprobe syscall-trace
modprobe trap-trace
+modprobe block-trace
#if locking tracing is wanted, uncomment the following
#modprobe lockdep-trace
@@ -344,7 +348,6 @@ cp /etc/modules /etc/modules.bkp
echo ltt-trace-control >> /etc/modules
echo ltt-marker-control >> /etc/modules
echo ltt-tracer >> /etc/modules
-echo ltt-serialize >> /etc/modules
echo ltt-relay >> /etc/modules
echo ipc-trace >> /etc/modules
echo kernel-trace >> /etc/modules
@@ -369,7 +372,7 @@ same name as the ltt-control kernel module, they are *not* the same thing.)
su -
cd /usr/src
-wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006.tar.gz
+wget http://lttng.org/files/lttng/ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006.tar.gz
gzip -cd ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2008.tar.gz | tar xvof -
cd ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006
(refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you
@@ -404,7 +407,7 @@ or different from the visualisation machine)
su -
cd /usr/src
-wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/lttv-0.x.xx-xxxx2008.tar.gz
+wget http://lttng.org/files/packages/lttv-0.x.xx-xxxx2008.tar.gz
gzip -cd lttv-0.x.xx-xxxx2008.tar.gz | tar xvof -
cd lttv-0.x.xx-xxxx2008
(refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on your
@@ -543,18 +546,16 @@ for LTTng probe examples.
Add new events to userspace programs with
-userspace markers packages.
+userspace markers packages.
Get the latest markers-userspace-*.tar.bz2 and see the Makefile and examples. It
allows inserting markers in executables and libraries, currently only on x86_32
and x86_64.
See markers-userspace-0.5.tar.bz2 or more recent.
+href="http://lttng.org/files/packages/markers-userspace-0.5.tar.bz2">markers-userspace-0.5.tar.bz2 or more recent.
-Note that a new design document for a 3rd generation of tracepoint/marker-based
-userspace tracing is available at LTTng User-space Tracing
-Design. This new infrastructure is not yet implemented.
+Note that tracepoint/marker-based userspace tracing is available at LTTng User-space Tracer (UST).
The easy quick-and-dirty way to perform userspace tracing is currently to write