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 0.5.4 tracer on a
+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.
Author : Mathieu Desnoyers, September 2005
-Last update : January 10, 2006
+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).
+ sources (see section 2 below). To see the list of compatibilities between
+ LTTng, LTTv, genevent and lttng-modules, please refer to
+ http://ltt.polymtl.ca > LTTng+LTTV versions compatibility
* Install from RPM packages on Fedora Core 4 :
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-0.4.tar.bz2
-wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4.tar.bz2
-bzip2 -cd lttng-modules-0.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
-bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvof -
+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 -
* Getting LTTng kernel sources
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-0.5.4* | patch -p1
+cat /usr/src/lttng/patch-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18* | patch -p1
cd ..
-mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4
+mv linux-2.6.15 linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18
* Installing a LTTng kernel
su -
-cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4
+cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18
make menuconfig (or make xconfig or make config)
Select the < Help > button if you are not familiar with kernel
configuration.
reboot
- Select the Linux 2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4 kernel in your boot loader.
+ Select the Linux 2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18 kernel in your boot loader.
* Install the ltt-modules
su -
-cd /usr/src/lttng/lttng-modules-0.4
-KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4 make
-KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4 make modules_install
+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
* Editing the system wide configuration
modprobe ltt-control
+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
+issuing the command :
+
+modprobe ltt-statedump
+
You can automate at boot time loading the ltt-control module by :
echo ltt-control >> /etc/modules
+echo ltt-statedump >> /etc/modules
+
+
+* Getting and installing the ltt-control package (on the traced machine)
+
+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
+(refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you
+system)
+./configure
+make
+make install
-* Getting and installing the LTTV package
+* Getting and installing the LTTV package (on the visualisation machine, same or
+ different from the visualisation machine)
su -
cd /usr/src
-wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.4-10012006.tar.gz
-gzip -cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.4-10012006.tar.gz | tar xvof -
-cd LinuxTraceToolkitViewer-0.8.4-10012006
+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
(refer to README to see the development libraries that must be installed on you
system)
./configure
su -
cd /usr/src
-wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.4.tar.gz
-gzip -cd genevent-0.4.tar.gz | tar xvof -
-cd genevent-0.4
+wget http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/genevent-0.6.tar.gz
+gzip -cd genevent-0.8.tar.gz | tar xvof -
+cd genevent-0.8
make
make install
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-0.5.4/include/linux/ltt
+ /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/include/linux/ltt
cp ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.c ltt-facility-loader-yourfacility.h \
- /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4/ltt
+ /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/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-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.4/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h
+ /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-lttng-0.5.18/include/linux/ltt/ltt-facility-yourfacility.h
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