From 3d43c1382b49d6e186c8c123c04c558ce8d65749 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philippe Proulx Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 23:27:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] installing-lttng: minor fixes Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx --- contents/installing-lttng/intro.md | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/contents/installing-lttng/intro.md b/contents/installing-lttng/intro.md index c96ce8d..fc34ed5 100644 --- a/contents/installing-lttng/intro.md +++ b/contents/installing-lttng/intro.md @@ -3,19 +3,19 @@ id: installing-lttng --- **LTTng** is a set of software components which interact to allow -instrumenting the Linux kernel and user applications and controlling -tracing sessions (starting/stopping tracing, enabling/disabling events, -etc.). Those components are bundled into the following packages: +instrumenting the Linux kernel and user applications as well as +controlling tracing sessions (starting/stopping tracing, +enabling/disabling events, and more). Those components are bundled into +the following packages: - * **LTTng-tools**: Libraries and command line interface to control - tracing sessions - * **LTTng-modules**: Linux kernel modules allowing Linux to be - traced using LTTng - * **LTTng-UST**: User space tracing library + * **LTTng-tools**: libraries and command line interface to control + tracing sessions. + * **LTTng-modules**: Linux kernel modules for tracing the kernel. + * **LTTng-UST**: user space tracing library. Most distributions mark the LTTng-modules and LTTng-UST packages as -optional. In the following sections, we always provide the steps to -install all three, but be aware that LTTng-modules is only required if +optional. In the following sections, the steps to install all three are +always provided, but note that LTTng-modules is only required if you intend to trace the Linux kernel and LTTng-UST is only required if you intend to trace user space applications. -- 2.34.1