From d21695edd99a30331bbcbc064265c712acb655f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: compudj Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:18:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] QUICKSTART update git-svn-id: http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn@1443 04897980-b3bd-0310-b5e0-8ef037075253 --- ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART | 79 +++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART index 5d4eb00a..8df06a83 100644 --- a/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART +++ b/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART @@ -13,13 +13,9 @@ 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 0.4.3 tracer on a -linux 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 kernel. You will also find instructions for installtion of -LTTV 0.6.x : the Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer. - -At this point, the -mm tree of the kernel is used because it has RelayFS support -in it. In a nearby future, a vanilla kernel 2.6.14 will be used, as RelayFS has -been integrated in the linux 2.6.14-rc series. +These operations are made for installing the LTTng 0.5.0 tracer on a +linux 2.6.14 kernel. You will also find instructions for installtion 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. @@ -38,18 +34,24 @@ Intel Pentium (UP/SMP) with TSC LTTV : supported architectures : Intel i386 and better +Intel 64 bits PowerPC Author : Mathieu Desnoyers, September 2005 - +Last update : December 31, 2005 *********************************************************** ** Section 1 * Installation from Debian or RPM packages ** *********************************************************** +** 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). + + * Install from RPM packages on Fedora Core 4 : Get LTTV RPM from : @@ -183,46 +185,49 @@ su - 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-0.3.tar.bz2 -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3.tar.bz2 -bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.3.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - -bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/lttng-modules-0.4.tar.bz2 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0a.tar.bz2 +bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0a.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - * Getting LTTng kernel sources su - cd /usr/src -wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.12-rc4.tar.bz2 -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 -bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.12-rc4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - -cd linux-2.6.12-rc4 -bzip2 -cd ../2.6.12-rc4-mm2.bz2 | patch -p1 -cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3-* | patch -p1 +wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 +bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 | tar xvof - +cd linux-2.6.14 +cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0* | patch -p1 cd .. -mv linux-2.6.12-rc4 linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3 +mv linux-2.6.14 linux-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0 * Installing a LTTng kernel su - -cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3 +cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0 make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config) Select the < Help > button if you are not familiar with kernel configuration. Items preceded by [*] means they has to be built into the kernel. Items preceded by [M] means they has to be built as modules. Items preceded by [ ] means they should be removed. - go to the "General setup" section + go to the "Instrumentation Support" section Select the following options : [*] Linux Trace Toolkit Instrumentation Support - [M] or [*] Linux Trace Toolkit Tracer + or <*> Linux Trace Toolkit Tracer 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 do NOT activate (not ready yet) : - [ ] Align Linux Trace Toolkit Traces [ ] Activate Linux Trace Toolkit Heartbeat Timer - IMPORTANT : This is enabled by default : you must disable it! + 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 Select Select @@ -232,15 +237,15 @@ make install reboot - Select the Linux 2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3 kernel in your boot loader. + Select the Linux 2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0 kernel in your boot loader. * Install the ltt-modules su - -cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.3 -KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3 make -KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3 make modules_install +cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.4 +KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0 make +KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0 make modules_install * Editing the system wide configuration @@ -272,9 +277,9 @@ echo ltt-control >> /etc/modules su - cd /usr/src -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.6.9-10102005.tar.gz -gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.6.9-10102005.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.6.9-10102005 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.0-17122005.tar.gz +gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.0-17122005.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.0-17122005 (refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you system) ./configure @@ -337,9 +342,9 @@ see lttv -m textDump --help for detailed command line options of textDump. su - cd /usr/src -wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.2.tar.gz -gzip -cd genevent-0.2.tar.gz | tar xvof - -cd genevent-0.2 +wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.3.tar.gz +gzip -cd genevent-0.3.tar.gz | tar xvof - +cd genevent-0.3 make make install @@ -353,14 +358,14 @@ 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-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3/include/linux/ltt + /usr/src/linux-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0/include/linux/ltt cp ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.c ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.h \ - /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3/ltt + /usr/src/linux-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0/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-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-lttng-0.4.3/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h + /usr/src/linux-2.6.14-lttng-0.5.0/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h -- 2.34.1