The LTTng Documentation
=======================
Philippe Proulx <pproulx@efficios.com>
-v2.8, 25 October 2016
+v2.8, 28 November 2016
include::../common/copyright.txt[]
applications.
[role="growable"]
-.Availability of LTTng{nbsp}{revision} for major Linux distributions.
+.Availability of LTTng{nbsp}{revision} for major Linux distributions as of 28 November 2016.
|====
|Distribution |Available in releases |Alternatives
|Ubuntu
-|<<ubuntu,Ubuntu{nbsp}16.10 _Yakkety Yak_>>
+|<<ubuntu,Ubuntu{nbsp}16.10 _Yakkety Yak_>>.
|LTTng{nbsp}{revision} for Ubuntu{nbsp}14.04 _Trusty Tahr_
and Ubuntu{nbsp}16.04 _Xenial Xerus_:
<<ubuntu-ppa,use the LTTng Stable{nbsp}{revision} PPA>>.
+LTTng{nbsp}2.9 for Ubuntu{nbsp}14.04 _Trusty Tahr_
+and Ubuntu{nbsp}16.04 _Xenial Xerus_:
+link:/docs/v2.9#doc-ubuntu-ppa[use the LTTng Stable{nbsp}2.9 PPA].
+
<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
other Ubuntu releases.
|Fedora
-|_Not available_
-|LTTng{nbsp}{revision} for Fedora{nbsp}25 and Fedora{nbsp}26 (not
-released yet).
-
-<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
+|<<fedora,Fedora{nbsp}25>>.
+|<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
other Fedora releases.
|Debian
-|<<debian,Debian "stretch" (testing)>>
-|
-<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
+|<<debian,Debian "stretch" (testing)>>.
+|<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
previous Debian releases.
|openSUSE
|_Not available_
-|LTTng{nbsp}2.7 for openSUSE Leap{nbsp}42.1.
-
-<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
-other openSUSE releases.
+|<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>>.
|Arch Linux
-|Latest AUR packages.
-|
+|_Not available_
+|link:/docs/v2.9#doc-arch-linux[LTTng{nbsp}2.9 from the AUR].
|Alpine Linux
-|<<alpine-linux,Alpine Linux "edge">>
+|<<alpine-linux,Alpine Linux "edge">>.
|LTTng{nbsp}{revision} for Alpine Linux{nbsp}3.5 (not released yet).
<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
|_Not available_
|LTTng{nbsp}{revision} for Buildroot{nbsp}2016.11 (not released yet).
-LTTng{nbsp}2.7 for Buildroot{nbsp}2016.02, Buildroot{nbsp}2016.05,
-and Buildroot{nbsp}2016.08.
-
<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
other Buildroot releases.
|OpenEmbedded and Yocto
-|<<oe-yocto,Yocto Project{nbsp}2.2 _Morty_>> (`openembedded-core` layer)
+|<<oe-yocto,Yocto Project{nbsp}2.2 _Morty_>> (`openembedded-core` layer).
|<<building-from-source,Build LTTng{nbsp}{revision} from source>> for
other OpenEmbedded releases.
|====
For previous releases of Ubuntu, <<ubuntu-ppa,use the LTTng
Stable{nbsp}{revision} PPA>>.
-To install LTTng{nbsp}{revision} on Ubuntu 16.10{nbsp}_Yakkety Yak_:
+To install LTTng{nbsp}{revision} on Ubuntu{nbsp}16.10 _Yakkety Yak_:
. Install the main LTTng{nbsp}{revision} packages:
+
--
. **If you need to instrument and trace
- <<python-application,Python applications>>**, install the
+ <<python-application,Python{nbsp}3 applications>>**, install the
LTTng-UST Python agent:
+
--
--
. **If you need to instrument and trace
- <<python-application,Python applications>>**, install the
+ <<python-application,Python{nbsp}3 applications>>**, install the
LTTng-UST Python agent:
+
--
--
+[[fedora]]
+=== Fedora
+
+To install LTTng{nbsp}{revision} on Fedora{nbsp}25:
+
+. Install the LTTng-tools{nbsp}{revision} and LTTng-UST{nbsp}{revision}
+ packages:
++
+--
+[role="term"]
+----
+sudo yum install lttng-tools
+sudo yum install lttng-ust
+----
+--
+
+. Download, build, and install the latest LTTng-modules{nbsp}{revision}:
++
+--
+[role="term"]
+----
+cd $(mktemp -d) &&
+wget http://lttng.org/files/lttng-modules/lttng-modules-latest-2.8.tar.bz2 &&
+tar -xf lttng-modules-latest-2.8.tar.bz2 &&
+cd lttng-modules-2.8.* &&
+make &&
+sudo make modules_install &&
+sudo depmod -a
+----
+--
+
+[IMPORTANT]
+.Java and Python application instrumentation and tracing
+====
+If you need to instrument and trace <<java-application,Java
+applications>> on openSUSE, you need to build and install
+LTTng-UST{nbsp}{revision} <<building-from-source,from source>> and pass
+the `--enable-java-agent-jul`, `--enable-java-agent-log4j`, or
+`--enable-java-agent-all` options to the `configure` script, depending
+on which Java logging framework you use.
+
+If you need to instrument and trace <<python-application,Python
+applications>> on openSUSE, you need to build and install
+LTTng-UST{nbsp}{revision} from source and pass the
+`--enable-python-agent` option to the `configure` script.
+====
+
+
[[debian]]
=== Debian
[[alpine-linux]]
=== Alpine Linux
-To install LTTng{nbsp}{revision} (tracing control and user space
-tracing) on Alpine Linux "edge":
+To install LTTng-tools{nbsp}{revision} and LTTng-UST{nbsp}{revision} on
+Alpine Linux "edge":
. Make sure your system is
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Edge[configured for "edge"].
To build the instrumented user library:
. In path:{emon.c}, before including path:{tpp.h}, add the
- following line:
+ following lines:
+
--
[source,c]
To build the instrumented user library:
. In path:{emon.c}, before including path:{tpp.h}, add the
- following line:
+ following lines:
+
--
[source,c]
To build the instrumented user library:
. In path:{emon.c}, before including path:{tpp.h}, add the
- following line:
+ following lines:
+
--
[source,c]
To build the instrumented user library:
. In path:{emon.c}, before including path:{tpp.h}, add the
- following line:
+ following lines:
+
--
[source,c]
entry is enough to create a call graph, since an event record always
contains the ID of the CPU that generated it.
+
-You can use a tool like
-https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/addr2line.html[cmd:addr2line]
-to convert function addresses back to source file names and
-line numbers.
+You can use a tool like man:addr2line(1) to convert function addresses
+back to source file names and line numbers.
* **path:{liblttng-ust-cyg-profile.so}** is a more robust variant
which also works in use cases where event records might get discarded or
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