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3<center><big><big>LTTV & LTTng roadmap<small><small></center>
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6Here are the roadmaps for the LTTV and LTTng development. I use a priority indice
7for the TODO items :<br>
8(1) : very high priority<br>
9(10): lowest priority<br>
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12Dependencies are written between parenthesis ( ).<br>
13The # symbol marks who is currently working on the item.<br>
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15<big>LTTV Roadmap<small><br>
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17* TODO<br>
18(4) create a event rate graphical view : Will be useful in conjonction with the
19 filter.<br>
20 # <A HREF="mailto:Parisa Heidari <parisa.heidari@polymtl.ca>">Parisa Heidari</A><br>
21(6) migrate align to lttv parser.<br>
22(7) create an analysis of function time (like a precise gprof)<br>
23 -> with gcc -f inline-functions<br>
24(10) Add cancel button to LTTV filter GUI window.
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27* Done<br>
28per struct (struct align=x) support added to genevent (partial).<br>
29Add offset align generation for structs to genevent.<br>
30make lttv aware of the per facility long, void* and size_t types.<br>
31Read current trace header and buffer header.<br>
32redo lib tracefile : too much problems in there.<br>
33modify the rest of LTTV to match the API changes.<br>
34debian package<br>
35RPM package<br>
36<br>
37<big>LTT Next Generation Roadmap<small><br>
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39* TODO<br>
40(1) add genevent full functionnality : alignment, array, sequences, nested
41structures.<br>
42 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
43(1) port LTTng to 2.6.14 kernel. (depends on genevent rewrite)<br>
44(2) add efficient and secure user space tracing. (1 month)<br>
45(3) integrate LTTng State Dump : missing irq and process state.<br>
46 # <A HREF="mailto:Jean-Hugues Deschenes <jean-hugues.deschenes@polymtl.ca>">Jean-Hugues Deschenes</A><br>
47(7) add gcc -finstrument-functions instrumentation<br>
48(3) port LTTng to x86_64, PPC, alpha, user-mode Linux, Xen, MIPS, ARM, S/390.
49(depends on 2.6.14 port)
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51<br>
52* Done<br>
53remove ltt-headers.h<br>
54remove ltt-log.h<br>
55Put trace->active later in _ltt_trace_start()<br>
56ltt_trace_create() remove sleep in spinlock use GFP_ATOMIC kmalloc<br>
57Fix the locking of module hooks.<br>
58Fix the traps -> disable nested logging for now.<br>
59Use per cpu spinlock on trace list.<br>
60Finish the control module, libltt and lttctl : netlink interface<br>
61Finish integrating lttctl with lttd.<br>
62fix lttctl signal waiting : use a flag.<br>
63Add ltt_write_commit_counter call to genevent.<br>
64Add information in the buffer header : buffer size, etc etc...<br>
65 -> this information is so small that we can repeat it. Makes flight recorder
66 easier to decode.<br>
67Add trace start structure to buffer start header.<br>
68fix genevent : take no lock if num traces active is 0.<br>
69Add type information per facility : it will help having a standard way
70to understand information coming from both kernel space and user space, and deal
71easily with 64 bits kernel with 64 and 32 bits processes (and with size_t know
72at compile time which can differ inside the same process from one library to
73another).<br>
74fix structures alignment, array and sequences too. -> trace dynamic.<br>
75add per facility alignment (inside structures).<br>
76add control of alignment.<br>
77add control for subbuffer size and number of subbuffers.<br>
78Add reserve - get TSC - alignment atomicity through the use of cmpxchg.<br>
79Add configurable alignment (LTT_ALIGNMENT).<br>
80Get ultra-precise logging with use of TSC (only) : only one do_gettimeofday
81read, and then we don't want the time flow to be altered by ntp.<br>
82Debian kernel package<br>
83make LTT tracing code completely atomic (thus remove locks)<br>
84Buffer aligned on page boundary -> use valloc.<br>
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87<br>
88* TODO (low priority)<br>
89enhance RPM packages for lttng kernel<br>
90Integrate header generation (genevent) in kernel build system.<br>
91Multithreaded lttd.<br>
92Find a different way to printk from instrumentation : forbidden from schedule
93and wakeup (causes a deadlock).<br>
94<br>
95* Need to be discussed<br>
96Drop ltt-module-register and ltt-module-unregister, use exported variables.<br>
97RelayFS ioctl interface vs control through LTT netlink interface.<br>
98drop ltt_filter_control, use functions pointers instead.<br>
99Merge facilities headers into one big header.<br>
100Change the name of XML files from XML to something else.<br>
101Remove ltt-base.c.<br>
102<br>
103* Not planned for integration<br>
104Remove the callback struct from the trace struct.<br>
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106<br>
107<br>
108* lttng patch division (0.4.2+) :<br>
109<br>
110ltt-instrumentation.diff<br>
111ltt-facilities-headers.diff<br>
112ltt-facilities-loader.diff<br>
113ltt-facilities.diff<br>
114ltt-relayfs.diff<br>
115ltt-core.diff<br>
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117<br>
118Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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