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@@ -12,16 +12,48 @@ Last update : January 21st, 2009<br>
 (originally known as the LTTng QUICKSTART guide)
 
 <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
-<ul>
 
+<ul>
 <li><a href="#intro" name="TOCintro">Introduction</a></li>
+
 <li><a href="#section1" name="TOCsection1">Installing LTTng and LTTV from
 sources</a></li>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#prerequisites" name="TOCprerequisites">Prerequisistes</li>
+<li><a href="#getlttng" name="TOCgetlttng">Getting the LTTng packages</li>
+<li><a href="#getlttngsrc" name="TOCgetlttngsrc">Getting the LTTng kernel sources</li>
+<li><a href="#installlttng" name="TOCinstalllttng">Installing a LTTng kernel</li>
+<li><a href="#editconfig" name="TOCeditconfig">Editing the system wide
+configuration</a>
+<li><a href="#getlttctl" name="TOCgetlttctl">Getting and installing the
+ltt-control package</li>
+<li><a href="#userspacetracing" name="TOCuserspacetracing">Userspace Tracing</li>
+<li><a href="#getlttv" name="TOCgetlttv">Getting and installing the LTTV package</ul>
+
 <li><a href="#section2" name="TOCsection2">Using LTTng and LTTV</a></li>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#uselttvgui" name="TOCuselttvgui">Use graphical LTTV to control
+tracing and analyse traces</a></li>
+<li><a href="#uselttngtext" name="TOCuselttngtext">Use text mode LTTng to
+<li><a href="#uselttvtext" name="TOCuselttvtext">Use text mode LTTV</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hybrid" name="TOChybrid">Tracing in "Hybrid" mode</a></li>
+<li><a href="#flight" name="TOCflight">Tracing in flight recorder mode</a></li>
+
+</ul>
+
 <li><a href="#section3" name="TOCsection3">Adding kernel and user-space
-tracepoints</a></li>
+instrumentation</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#kerneltp" name="TOCkerneltp">Adding kernel instrumentation</a></li>
+<li><a href="#usertp" name="TOCusertp">Adding userspace instrumentation</a></li>
+</ul>
+
 <li><a href="#section4" name="TOCsection4">Creating Debian and RPM packages
-from LTTV</a>
+from LTTV</a></li>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#pkgdebian" name="TOCpkgdebian">Create custom LTTV Debian
+<li><a href="#pkglttng" name="TOCpkglttng">Create custom LTTng packages</a></li>
+</ul>
 
 </ul>
 
@@ -48,7 +80,7 @@ The lttng patch is necessary to have the tracing hooks in the kernel.
 <br>
 <br>
 Supported architectures : 
-<br>
+br>
 LTTng :<br>
 <li> x86 32/64 bits
 <li> PowerPC 32 and 64 bits
@@ -69,7 +101,7 @@ the LTTng traces and the LTTV analysis tool.
 <h2><a href="#TOCsection1" name="section1">Installation from sources</a></h2>
 <p>
 
-<li>Prerequisites</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCprerequisites" name="prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></h3>
 <ul>
 <p>
 Tools needed to follow the package download steps :
@@ -130,7 +162,7 @@ href="http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/lttv/doc/developer/lttng-lttv-compatibilit
 versions compatibility</a>.
 
 
-<li>Getting the LTTng packages</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCgetlttng" name="getlttng">Getting the LTTng packages</a></h3>
 
 <PRE>
 su -
@@ -142,7 +174,7 @@ bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
 </PRE>
 
 
-<li>Getting LTTng kernel sources</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCgetlttngsrc" name="getlttngsrc">Getting LTTng kernel sources</a></h3>
 
 <PRE>
 su -
@@ -158,7 +190,7 @@ mv linux-2.6.X linux-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx
 </PRE>
 
 
-<li>Installing a LTTng kernel</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCinstalllttng" name="installlttng">Installing a LTTng kernel</a></h3>
 
 <PRE>
 su -
@@ -215,7 +247,8 @@ Select the Linux 2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx kernel in your boot loader.
 --
 </PRE>
 
-<li>Editing the system wide configuration</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCeditconfig" name="editconfig">Editing the system wide
+configuration</a></h3>
 
 <p>
 You must activate debugfs and specify a mount point. This is typically done in
@@ -290,7 +323,9 @@ echo trap-trace >> /etc/modules
 #echo lockdep-trace >> /etc/modules
 </PRE>
 
-<li>Getting and installing the ltt-control package (on the traced machine)</li>
+
+<h3><a href="#TOCgetlttctl" name="getlttctl">Getting and installing the
+ltt-control package (on the traced machine)</a></h3>
 <p>
 (note : the ltt-control package contains lttd and lttctl. Although it has the
 same name as the ltt-control kernel module, they are *not* the same thing.)
@@ -308,7 +343,7 @@ make
 make install
 </PRE>
 
-<li>Userspace tracing</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCuserspacetracing" name="userspacetracing">Userspace tracing</a></h3>
 
 <PRE>
 Make sure you selected the kernel menuconfig option :
@@ -324,8 +359,9 @@ channel : userspace
 event name : event
 </PRE>
 
-<li>Getting and installing the LTTV package (on the visualisation machine, same
-or different from the visualisation machine)</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCgetlttv" name="getlttv">Getting and installing the LTTV package
+(on the visualisation machine, same
+or different from the visualisation machine)</a></h3>
 
 <PRE>
 su -
@@ -340,23 +376,18 @@ make
 make install
 </PRE>
 
-<li>Getting and installing the markers-userspace package for user space
-tracing (experimental)</li>
-<p>
-See <a
-href="http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/markers-userspace-0.5.tar.bz2">markers-userspace-0.5.tar.bz2</a> or more recent.
-
 <hr />
 
 
 <h2><a href="#TOCsection2" name="section2">Using LTTng and LTTV</a></h2>
 
-<li>IMPORTANT : Arm Linux Kernel Markers after each boot</li>
+<li><b>IMPORTANT : Arm Linux Kernel Markers after each boot before tracing</b></li>
 <PRE>
 ltt-armall
 </PRE>
 
-<li>Use graphical LTTV to control tracing and analyse traces</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCuselttvgui" name="uselttvgui">Use graphical LTTV to control
+tracing and analyse traces</a></h3>
 <PRE>
 lttv-gui (or /usr/local/bin/lttv-gui)
   - Spot the "Tracing Control" icon : click on it
@@ -368,7 +399,7 @@ lttv-gui (or /usr/local/bin/lttv-gui)
       * You should now see a trace
 </PRE>
 
-<li>Use text mode LTTng to control tracing</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCuselttngtext" name="uselttngtext">Use text mode LTTng to control tracing</a></h3>
 <PRE>
 The tracing can be controlled from a terminal by using the lttctl command (as
 root).
@@ -390,7 +421,7 @@ 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.)
 
-<li>Use text mode LTTV</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCuselttvtext" name="uselttvtext">Use text mode LTTV</a></h3>
 <p>
 Feel free to look in /usr/local/lib/lttv/plugins to see all the text and
 graphical plugins available.
@@ -408,7 +439,7 @@ of the events to the clipboard and paste them in the GUI by clicking on the
 bottom right label "Current time". Support for this type of filtering should
 be added to the filter module soon.
 
-<li>Hybrid mode</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOChybrid" name="hybrid">Tracing in "Hybrid" mode</a></h3>
 <p>
 Starting from LTTng 0.5.105 and ltt-control 0.20, a new mode can be used :
 hybrid. It can be especially useful when studying big workloads on a long period
@@ -433,6 +464,8 @@ lttctl -D -w /tmp/trace2 trace2
 <p>
 Each "overwrite" channel is flight recorder channel.
 
+
+<h3><a href="#TOCflight" name="flight">Tracing in flight recorder mode</a></h3>
 <li>Flight recorder mode</li>
 <p>
 The flight recorder mode writes data into overwritten buffers for all channels,
@@ -453,24 +486,48 @@ lttctl -D -w /tmp/trace3 trace3
 markers</a></h2>
 <p>
 
+<h3><a href="#TOCkerneltp" name="kerneltp">Adding kernel
+instrumentation</a></h3>
+
 <p>
-See Documentation/markers.txt and Documentation/tracepoints.txt in your kernel
+See <a
+href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/compudj/linux-2.6-lttng.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/markers.txt">Documentation/markers.txt</a>
+and <a
+href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/compudj/linux-2.6-lttng.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/tracepoints.txt">Documentation/tracepoints.txt</a> in your kernel
 tree.
+<p>
+Also see <a
+href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/compudj/linux-2.6-lttng.git;a=tree;f=ltt/probes">ltt/probes/</a>
+for LTTng probe examples.
 
-<li>Add new events to userspace programs with userspace markers
-http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCusertp" name="usertp">Adding userspace instrumentation</a></h3>
 
-<p>
+Add new events to userspace programs with
+<a href="http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/">userspace markers packages</a>.
 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 <a
+href="http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/markers-userspace-0.5.tar.bz2">markers-userspace-0.5.tar.bz2</a> or more recent.
+
+<p>
+Note that a new design document for a 3rd generation of tracepoint/marker-based
+userspace tracing is available at <a
+href="http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/lttv/doc/developer/ust.html">LTTng User-space Tracing
+Design</a>. This new infrastructure is not yet implemented.
+
+<p>
+The easy quick-and-dirty way to perform userspace tracing is currently to write
+an string to /mnt/debugfs/ltt/write_event. See <a
+href="#userspacetracing">Userspace tracing</a> in the
+installation for sources section of this document.
 
 <hr />
 
 <h2><a href="#TOCsection4" name="section4">Creating Debian or RPM packages</a></h2>
 <p>
 
-<li>Create custom LTTV Debian packages</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCpkgdebian" name="pkgdebian">Create custom LTTV Debian packages</a></h3>
 
 <PRE>
 Use : dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
@@ -478,7 +535,7 @@ Use : dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
 <p>
 You should then have your LTTV .deb files created for your architecture.
 
-<li>Create custom LTTng packages</li>
+<h3><a href="#TOCpkglttng" name="pkglttng">Create custom LTTng packages</a></h3>
 <p>
 For building LTTng Debian packages :
 get the build tree with patches applies as explained in section 2.