From 3c3abcf18d39e0663e54b6d8e2014df2cf0497db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: compudj Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:06:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update git-svn-id: http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn@1696 04897980-b3bd-0310-b5e0-8ef037075253 --- ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART index 1cc95dc7..3a97cc9a 100644 --- a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART +++ b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART @@ -13,9 +13,15 @@ What you will typically want is to read sections 1 and 3 : install LTTng from binary packages and use it. If there are no packages ready for your system, you will have to install from sources (section 2) instead. -These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.5.18 tracer on a -linux 2.6.15 kernel. You will also find instructions for installation of -LTTV 0.8.x : the Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer. +These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.5.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. + +To see the list of compatibilities between LTTng, ltt-control, LTTV, genevent +and lttng-modules, please refer to : +http://ltt.polymtl.ca > LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility + + The following lttng patch is necessary to have the tracing hooks in the kernel. The following ltt-control module controls the tracing. @@ -50,7 +56,7 @@ Last update : February 10, 2006 ** 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, LTTv, genevent and lttng-modules, please refer to + LTTng, ltt-control, LTTV, genevent and lttng-modules, please refer to http://ltt.polymtl.ca > LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility @@ -159,7 +165,7 @@ o module-init-tools 0.9.10 # depmod -V You might also want to have libncurses5 to have the text mode kernel configuration menu, but there are alternatives. -Prerequisites for LTTV 0.6.x installation are : +Prerequisites for LTTV 0.x.x installation are : gcc 3.2 or better gtk 2.4 or better development libraries @@ -188,9 +194,9 @@ mkdir /usr/src/lttng cd /usr/src/lttng (see http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng for package listing) wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/lttng-modules-0.5.tar.bz2 -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18.tar.bz2 -bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.5.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - -bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx.tar.bz2 +bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.x.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - * Getting LTTng kernel sources @@ -200,15 +206,15 @@ cd /usr/src wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - cd linux-2.6.15 -cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18* | patch -p1 +cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx* | patch -p1 cd .. -mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 +mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx * Installing a LTTng kernel su - -cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 +cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config) Select the < Help > button if you are not familiar with kernel configuration. @@ -223,7 +229,8 @@ make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config) is compiled built-in or as a module. activate : [*] Align Linux Trace Toolkit Traces - do NOT activate (not ready yet) : + [*] Allow tracing from userspace + 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 @@ -239,15 +246,15 @@ make install reboot - Select the Linux 2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 kernel in your boot loader. + Select the Linux 2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx kernel in your boot loader. * Install the ltt-modules su - -cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.5 -KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 make -KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 make modules_install +cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.xx +KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx make +KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx make modules_install * Editing the system wide configuration @@ -286,9 +293,9 @@ echo ltt-statedump >> /etc/modules su - cd /usr/src -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/ltt-control-0.1-11032006.tar.gz -gzip -cd ltt-control-0.1-11032006.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd ltt-control-0.1-11032006 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006.tar.gz +gzip -cd ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd ltt-control-0.x-xxxx2006 (refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you system) ./configure @@ -301,9 +308,9 @@ make install su - cd /usr/src -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.31-11032006.tar.gz -gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.31-11032006.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.31-11032006 +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 system) ./configure @@ -366,9 +373,9 @@ see lttv -m textDump --help for detailed command line options of textDump. su - cd /usr/src -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.6.tar.gz -gzip -cd genevent-0.8.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd genevent-0.8 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.xx.tar.gz +gzip -cd genevent-0.xx.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd genevent-0.xx make make install @@ -382,14 +389,14 @@ cp process.xml yourfacility.xml cd /tmp /usr/local/bin/genevent /usr/local/share/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer/facilities/yourfacility.xml cp ltt-facility-yourfacility.h ltt-facility-id-yourfacility.h \ - /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/include/linux/ltt + /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx8/include/linux/ltt cp ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.c ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.h \ - /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/ltt + /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx/ltt * edit the kernel file you want to instrument - Add #include at the beginning of the file. - Add a call to the tracing functions. See their names and parameters in - /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h + /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.x.xx/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h -- 2.34.1