> -----Original Message----- > From: Mathieu Desnoyers [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 0:37 AM > To: Francis Giraldeau > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] Some questions about Lttng
> * Francis Giraldeau ([email protected]) wrote: > > Le 2012-06-19 05:50, [email protected] a écrit : > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm studying how to use Lttng now. I built a kernel which version is > > > 2.6.38 and ran with lttng 2.0. > > > > > > I got some confused when I started to use it. Here are my questions: > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. I didn't see kernel patches for kernel 3.x. Does it mean kernel 3.x > > > support it already? > > > > > > > You don't need a kernel patch with lttng 2.0, only modules are required. > > It uses the tracepoints already present in the kernel, and trace system > > calls, and uses perf performance counters and kprobes. > > > > > 2. I tried to do something like, dump the arguments of system call, or > > > dump a backtrace in a specified function. But the output of lttng is > > > very limited. Is there a way to do that with lttng? > > > > > > > If system calls are enabled, arguments are supposed to be dumped (option > > --syscall to lttng enable-event). If it's not the case, then are you > > sure you are using lttng 2.0 and not 0.12? ;) Because the older version > > has a different behavior. One additional note: few system calls do not > > have all their arguments decoded in lttng 2, but there are only a few. > There is no backtrace dump feature in lttng 2.0. > Arguments of system calls are almost all there on x86 32/64 and ARM. > What architecture are you using ? My tsetbed is x86 32bit and lttng's version is 2.0.1. You're right. I can see the arguments now. > > > > > 3. I looked into some UST examples and found here are three header > > > files: tracepoint.h, tracepoint-event.h and ust-tracepoint-event.h. > > > They have some duplicated macro definitions like TRACEPOINT_EVENT. > > > > > > > The macros are quite complicated. Some includes files are included more > > than once to generate various portion of the tracepoint code. So, my > > advice here is to take a working example and adapt it to your needs. > Good advice. > > > > > And the examples includes all of these three header files despite no > > > conflict here. Could someone help to explain the intention? > > > > > > 4. Once I defined a tracepoint in my code, seems some initializations > > > would register default probe into the hook point. How to disable the > > > default probe and register my self-defined probes? > > > > > > > You mean, call a custom function when tracepoint is executed? Maybe > > somebody else has an answer, but AFAIK this is not possible. But you > > could make a wrapper to your tracepoint and then call your additional > > function there. > Yep, not possible. You'd have to wrap the tracepoint. > > > > > 5. Does lttng-ust support dynamic traceing like kprobe? > > > > > > > AFAIK, the kernel tracer supports kprobe, but not UST. Maybe somebody > > else can confirm/infirm the dynamic tracepoint feature in user-space? > This is correct. > Thanks, > Mathieu > > > > You can use a feature of GCC to regiter callback on function entry and > > exit, but since it executes for all functions, then the overhead is very > > high. You can have a look here: > > > > https://github.com/giraldeau/workload-kit/blob/master/ust/cyg.c > > > > Cheers, > > > > Francis And here are some subsequent questions about lttng: 6. Does lttng-ust support marker? Marker is easier to be compatible with the APIs like printf if we don't care its performance issue. 7. What's supposed to show with 'lttng list -u'? It's empty now. Is that possible to show the events defined in an application? 8. What does disable-event command of lttng do? With the example(hello) provided by lttng-ust, I enabled all events with '-a -u' and then disabled them again. I launched the example with gdb and dumped the tracepoint's structure and then found its state was active. It's supposed to be inactive here, right? BTW: I didn't see any trace generated here with view command. Thanks all for your useful info! Best regards Zheng > > _______________________________________________ > > lttng-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev > -- > Mathieu Desnoyers > Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant > EfficiOS Inc. > http://www.efficios.com > _______________________________________________ > lttng-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev _______________________________________________ lttng-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev
