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   2 QUICKSTART
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   4 How to use LTTng and LTTV in a few lines :
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   6 These operations are made for installing LTTng 0.2 on a linux 2.6.12-rc2-mm2
   7 kernel. Change the versions to fit your needs.
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   9 Author : Mathieu Desnoyers, September 2005
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  11
  12 * Getting the LTTng packages
  13
  14 su -
  15 mkdir /usr/src/lttng
  16 cd /usr/src/lttng
  17 (see http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng for package listing)
  18 wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/lttng-modules-0.2.tar.bz2
  19 wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2.bz2
  20 bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.2.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
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  22
  23 * Getting LTTng kernel sources
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  25 su -
  26 cd /usr/src
  27 wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.12-rc4.tar.bz2
  28 wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc4/2.6.12-rc4-mm2/2.6.12-rc4-mm2.bz2
  29 bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.12-rc4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
  30 cd linux-2.6.12-rc4
  31 bzip2 -cd ../2.6.12-rc4-mm2.bz2 | patch -p1
  32 bzip2 -cd /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2.bz2 | patch -p1
  33 cd ..
  34 mv linux-2.6.12-rc4 linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2
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  36
  37 * Installing a LTTng kernel
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  39 su -
  40 cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2
  41 make menuconfig
  42   General setup
  43     * Linux Trace Toolkit Instrumentation Support
  44     M or * Linux Trace Toolkit Tracer
  45     do NOT activate (not ready yet) :
  46         Align Linux Trace Toolkit Traces
  47         Activate Linux Trace Toolkit Heartbeat Timer
  48               IMPORTANT : This is enabled by default : you must disable it!
  49 make install
  50 reboot
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  52
  53 * Install the ltt-modules
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  55 su -
  56 cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.2
  57 KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2 make
  58 KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2 make modules_install
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  60 note : at this stage, you might want to execute
  61 modprobe ltt-control
  62
  63 and you might also want to do this :
  64 echo ltt-control >> /etc/modules
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  66
  67 * Getting and installing the LTTV package
  68
  69 su -
  70 cd /usr/src
  71 wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.5-16092005.tar.gz
  72 gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.5-16092005.tar.gz | tar xvof -
  73 cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.5-16092005
  74 ./configure
  75 make
  76 make install
  77
  78 * Use LTTV
  79
  80 lttv-gui (or /usr/local/bin/lttv-gui)
  81   - Spot the "Trace Control" icon : click on it
  82     - enter the root password
  83     - click "start"
  84     - click "stop"
  85     - Yes
  86       * You should now see a trace
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  88
  89 * Getting and installing genevent
  90
  91 su -
  92 cd /usr/src
  93 wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.1.tar.gz
  94 gzip -cd genevent-0.1.tar.gz | tar xvof -
  95 cd genevent-0.1
  96 make
  97 make install
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  99
 100 * Add new events to the kernel with genevent
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 102 su -
 103 cd /usr/local/share/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer/facilities
 104 cp process.xml yourfacility.xml
 105   * edit yourfacility.xml to fit your needs.
 106 cd /tmp
 107 /usr/local/bin/genevent /usr/local/share/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer/yourfacility.xml
 108 cp ltt-facility-yourfacility.h ltt-facility-id-yourfacility.h \
 109          /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2/include/linux/ltt
 110 cp ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.c ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.h \
 111          /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2/ltt
 112   * edit the kernel file you want to instrument
 113     - Add #include <linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h> at the beginning
 114       of the file.
 115     - Add a call to the tracing functions. See their names and parameters in
 116       /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.2/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h
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