+Linux Trace Toolkit Quickstart
+------------------------------
+Author : Mathieu Desnoyers, September 2005
+Last update : May 14, 2007
-QUICKSTART
-
-How to use LTTng and LTTV in a few lines :
-This document is made of four parts : The first one explains how to install
+This document is made of four parts : the first one explains how to install
LTTng and LTTV from Debian and RPM binary packages, the second one explains how
to install LTTng and LTTV from sources and the third one describes the steps
to follow to trace a system and view it. The fourth and last part explains
What you will typically want is to read sections 2 and 3 : install LTTng from
sources and use it.
-These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.5.X tracer on a
+These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.6.X tracer on a
linux 2.6.X kernel. You will also find instructions for installation of
LTTV 0.8.x : the Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer.
The following lttng patch is necessary to have the tracing hooks in the kernel.
The following ltt-control module controls the tracing.
-Required programs and librairies are assumed to be automatically installed in an
+Required programs and libraries are assumed to be automatically installed in an
installation with Debian or RPM packages. In the case of an installation from
sources, the dependencies are listed.
PowerPC 32 and 64 bits
-
-Author : Mathieu Desnoyers, September 2005
-Last update : May 30, 2006
-
-
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** Section 1 * Installation from Debian or RPM packages **
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-** NOTE : RPM and debian packages are only made once a version has been
+** NOTE : RPM and Debian packages are only made once a version has been
thoroughly tested. If they do not exist at the moment, please install from
sources (see section 2 below). To see the list of compatibilities between
LTTng, ltt-control, LTTV, genevent and lttng-modules, please refer to
package.
-* Install from Deb packages on Debian :
+* Install from .deb packages on Debian :
You can use the ltt.polymtl.ca apt source to get LTTV for Debian :
o gzip
o tar
-You have to install the standard development librairies and programs necessary
+You have to install the standard development libraries and programs necessary
to compile a kernel :
(from Documentation/Changes in the Linux kernel tree)
wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.X.tar.bz2
bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
cd linux-2.6.X
-cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx* | patch -p1
+- For LTTng 0.9.4- cat /usr/src/lttng/patch*-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx* | patch -p1
+- For LTTng 0.9.5+ apply the patches in the order specified in the series file,
+ or use quilt
cd ..
mv linux-2.6.X linux-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx
Select the following options :
[*] Linux Trace Toolkit Instrumentation Support
<M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit Tracer
+ <M> or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit Relay+DebugFS Support
It makes no difference for the rest of the procedure whether the Tracer
is compiled built-in or as a module.
activate :
[*] Align Linux Trace Toolkit Traces
[*] Allow tracing from userspace
+ <M> Linux Trace Toolkit Netlink Controller
+ <M> Linux Trace Toolkit State Dump
your choice (see < Help >) :
[ ] Activate Linux Trace Toolkit Heartbeat Timer
- You may or may not activate instrumentation per facility. They are all
- selected for logging by default. It can be used as a compile time filter to
- enable/disable logging of events. It is useful to discard events with a
- minimal impact on the system and especially useful for now, as the dynamic
- filter has not been implemented yet.
- Select <Exit>
+ You may or may not decide to compile probes. Afterward, you will have to
+ load the probe modules to enable tracing of their events. The probes
+ automatically select the appropriate facilities.
+ Static instrumentation is a more invasive type of instrumentation that gives
+ the address taking a lock or doing a printk.
+ Select <Exit>
Select <Exit>
Select <Yes>
make
make modules_install
+(if necessary, create a initrd with mkinitrd or your preferate alternative)
+(mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx 2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx)
-- on X86, X86_64
make install
* Editing the system wide configuration
-You must activate relayfs and specify a mount point. This is typically done in
+You must activate debugfs and specify a mount point. This is typically done in
fstab such that it happens at boot time.
-If you have never used RelayFS before, these operation would do this for you :
+If you have never used DebugFS before, these operation would do this for you :
-mkdir /mnt/relayfs
+mkdir /mnt/debugfs
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.lttng.bkp
-echo "relayfs /mnt/relayfs relayfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
+echo "debugfs /mnt/debugfs debugfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
-then, rebooting or issuing the following command will activate relayfs :
+then, rebooting or issuing the following command will activate debugfs :
-mount /mnt/relayfs
+mount /mnt/debugfs
-You need to load the ltt-control module to be able to control tracing from user
-space. This is done by issuing the command :
+You need to load the LTT modules to be able to control tracing from user
+space. This is done by issuing the following commands. Note however
+these commands load all LTT modules. Depending on what options you chose to
+compile statically, you may not need to issue all these commands.
modprobe ltt-control
modprobe ltt-core
modprobe ltt-relay
+modprobe ltt-tracer
+modprobe ltt-probe-mm
+modprobe ltt-probe-kernel
+modprobe ltt-probe-i386 (or x86_64, powerpc, ppc, arm, mips)
+modprobe ltt-probe-net
+modprobe ltt-probe-list
+modprobe ltt-probe-ipc
+modprobe ltt-probe-fs
If you want to have complete information about the kernel state (including all
the process names), you need to load the ltt-statedump module. This is done by
You can automate at boot time loading the ltt-control module by :
+cp /etc/modules /etc/modules.bkp
echo ltt-control >> /etc/modules
echo ltt-core >> /etc/modules
echo ltt-relay >> /etc/modules
+echo ltt-tracer >> /etc/modules
+echo ltt-probe-mm >> /etc/modules
+echo ltt-probe-kernel >> /etc/modules
+echo ltt-probe-i386 >> /etc/modules (or x86_64, powerpc, ppc, arm, mips)
+echo ltt-probe-net >> /etc/modules
+echo ltt-probe-list >> /etc/modules
+echo ltt-probe-ipc >> /etc/modules
+echo ltt-probe-fs >> /etc/modules
echo ltt-statedump >> /etc/modules
+(note : if you want to probe a marker which is within a module, make sure you
+load the probe _after_ the module, otherwise the probe will not be able to
+connect itself to the marker.)
+
* Getting and installing the ltt-control package (on the traced machine)
(note : the ltt-control package contains lttd and lttctl. Although it has the
wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.x.xx-xxxx2006.tar.gz
gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.x.xx-xxxx2006.tar.gz | tar xvof -
cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.x.xx-xxxx2006
-(refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you
+(refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on your
system)
./configure
make
Start tracing :
-lttctl -n trace -d -l /mnt/relayfs/ltt -t /tmp/trace
+lttctl -n trace -d -l /mnt/debugfs/ltt -t /tmp/trace
Stop tracing and destroy trace channels :
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
+count. If it is the case, try using larger buffers. See lttctl --help to learn
+how.)
* Use text mode LTTV
-Fell free to look in /usr/local/lib/lttv/plugins to see all the text and
+Feel free to look in /usr/local/lib/lttv/plugins to see all the text and
graphical plugins available.
For example, a simple trace dump in text format is available with :
see lttv -m textDump --help for detailed command line options of textDump.
-
+It is, in the current state of the project, very useful to use "grep" on the
+text output to filter by specific event fields. You can later copy the timestamp
+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.
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make install
-* Add new events to the kernel with genevent
+* Add new events to the kernel with genevent (deprecated in LTTng 0.9.x)
su -
-cd /usr/local/share/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer/facilities
+cd /usr/local/share/ltt-control/facilities
cp process.xml yourfacility.xml
* edit yourfacility.xml to fit your needs.
cd /tmp
-/usr/local/bin/genevent /usr/local/share/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer/facilities/yourfacility.xml
+/usr/local/bin/genevent /usr/local/share/ltt-control/facilities/yourfacility.xml
cp ltt-facility-yourfacility.h ltt-facility-id-yourfacility.h \
- /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-lttng-0.x.xx8/include/linux/ltt
+ /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-lttng-0.x.xx8/include/ltt
cp ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.c ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.h \
- /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-lttng-0.x.xx/ltt
- * edit the kernel file you want to instrument
- - Add #include <linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h> at the beginning
- of the file.
- - Add a call to the tracing functions. See their names and parameters in
- /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-lttng-0.x.xx/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h
-
-* Add new events to userspace programs with genevent
-See http://ltt.polymtl.ca/ > USERSPACE TRACING QUICKSTART
+ /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-lttng-0.x.xx/ltt/facilities
+ * edit the kernel file you want to instrument to add a marker to it. See
+ include/linux/marker.h.
+ * create a dynamically loadable probe. See ltt/probes for examples. The probe
+ will be connected to your marker and will typically call the logging
+ functions found in the header file you created with genevent.
+* Add new kernel events
+*Important* note : in its current state, LTTng and LTTV needs the programmer
+to keep the marker/probe format string and the XML description of the
+event data types in sync by hand. Failure to do so will result in errors in
+LTTV.
+See the markers documentation to see how to describe the marker. You will need
+to clone probe modules found in ltt/probes to connect them to the markers so
+that the information can be recorded in the trace.
+
+* Add new events to userspace programs with genevent
+See http://ltt.polymtl.ca/ > USERSPACE TRACING QUICKSTART
+User-space tracing still uses genevent, which is subject to change in a near
+future.
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