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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: Building a tracing userspace tool in the kernel tree
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:15:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223590513.7382.45.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081009191626.GA29344@Krystal>

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 15:16 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> At the kernel summit, people seemed to be interested to have the basic
> userspace tools required to extract and pretty-print a trace available
> within the kernel tree. Therefore, what I am trying to do is something
> along the lines of
> 
> ltt/usr/
> ltt/usr/tracectl/    (control tracing)
> ltt/usr/tracesplice/ (splice buffers to disk)
> ltt/usr/tracecat/    (merge sort and format the binary buffers into
>                       human-readable text)

I'd rather have you provide that interface from the kernel much like
ftrace does. So we can do:

# cat /debug/tracing/lttng/trace




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-09 19:16 Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-10-09 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-09 22:15 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-10-09 22:35   ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-09 22:40     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-09 23:11       ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-09 23:12   ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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