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@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Last update : January 21st, 2009
- Introduction
+
- Installing LTTng and LTTV from
sources
@@ -79,11 +82,16 @@ To see the list of compatibilities between LTTng, ltt-control, LTTV, please
refer to :
LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility
-The lttng patch is necessary to have the tracing hooks in the kernel.
+
+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
+state, the lttng patchset is necessary to have the trace clocksource, the
+instrumentation and the LTTng high-speed data extraction mechanism added to the
+kernel.
-Supported architectures :
+
LTTng :
@@ -92,6 +100,11 @@ LTTng :
- ARM (with limited timestamping precision, e.g. 1HZ. Need
architecture-specific support for better precision)
- MIPS
+
- sh (partial architecture-specific instrumentation)
+
- sparc64 (partial architecture-specific instrumentation)
+
- s390 (partial architecture-specific instrumentation)
+
- Other architectures supported without architecture-specific instrumentation
+and with low-resolution timestamps.
LTTV :
@@ -422,7 +435,7 @@ see lttctl --help for details.
(note : to see if the buffers has been filled, look at the dmesg output after
-lttctl -R or after stopping tracing from the GUI, it will show an event lost
+lttctl -D or after stopping tracing from the GUI, it will show an event lost
count. If it is the case, try using larger buffers. See lttctl --help to learn
how. lttv now also shows event lost messages in the console when loading a trace
with missing events or lost subbuffers.)
@@ -571,9 +584,9 @@ A few examples of successful LTTng users :
success with such tracing approach to fix "rare disk delay" issues and
VM-related issues presented in this article :
- IBM Research have had problems with Commercial Scale-out applications,
which are being an increasing trend to split large server workloads.