Certainly seems worthwhile to me although I never heard about debugfs being phased out. Could you clarify that point?
Jérémie On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Thibault, Daniel < [email protected]> wrote: > The Google Summer of Code LTTng entry ( > http://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013) is > a promising initiative. May I propose another little project idea? > > Babeltrace support for the debugfs (/sys/kernel/debug/tracing) trace format > > Brief explanation: > Provide a Babeltrace plug-in to allow Babeltrace to read from traces > created by the debugfs service (/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace). > > Expected results: A Babeltrace plug-in, tests, examples and documentation. > > Skill level: Easy - Medium > > Prerequisite Knowledge: C, OO development > > Mentors: ? > > Even if the debugfs tracing facility is destined for eventual > withdrawal from the Linux kernel, it may be of interest to some to recover > older traces generated in this way -if only in order to be able to process > them in the same way as CTF text dumps. Conversion to the babeltrace text > format should be fairly straightforward; conversion to CTF would be > trickier. > > Is this idea worthwhile or worthless? > > Daniel U. Thibault > R & D pour la défense Canada - Valcartier (RDDC Valcartier) / Defence R&D > Canada - Valcartier (DRDC Valcartier) > Cyber sécurité pour les missions essentielles (CME) / Mission Critical > Cyber Security (MCCS) > Protection des systèmes et contremesures (PSC) / Systems Protection & > Countermeasures (SPC) > 2459 route de la Bravoure > Québec, QC G3J 1X5 > CANADA > Vox : (418) 844-4000 x4245 > Fax : (418) 844-4538 > NAC : 918V QSDJ <http://www.travelgis.com/map.asp?addr=918V%20QSDJ> > Gouvernement du Canada / Government of Canada > <http://www.valcartier.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/> > > _______________________________________________ > lttng-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev > -- Jérémie Galarneau EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com
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