X-Git-Url: http://git.lttng.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=trunk%2Flttv%2FQUICKSTART.html;h=030d7e93c777062073587f2ab839c74407090f7c;hb=38b04cd7c383238a8ddb371cadda9e77e33bb7bf;hp=763bf8579cc9dd66b04dd36db20905157c0b02ba;hpb=e01a1ce1b2e8174f339168f6550934ea8e3da95b;p=lttv.git diff --git a/trunk/lttv/QUICKSTART.html b/trunk/lttv/QUICKSTART.html index 763bf857..030d7e93 100644 --- a/trunk/lttv/QUICKSTART.html +++ b/trunk/lttv/QUICKSTART.html @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Last update : January 21st, 2009
  • Introduction
  • Installing LTTng and LTTV from + sources
  • Using LTTng and LTTV
  • Adding kernel and user-space @@ -308,7 +310,7 @@ make make install -
  • Userspace tracing
  • +

    Userspace tracing

     Make sure you selected the kernel menuconfig option :
    @@ -458,14 +460,20 @@ tree.
     Get the latest markers-userspace-*.tar.bz2 and see the Makefile and examples. It
     allows inserting markers in executables and libraries, currently only on x86_32
     and x86_64.
    -
     See markers-userspace-0.5.tar.bz2 or more recent.
     
    +

    Note that a new design document for a 3rd generation of tracepoint/marker-based userspace tracing is available at LTTng User-space Tracing -Design". +Design". This new infrastructure is not yet implemented. + +

    +The easy quick-and-dirty way to perform userspace tracing is currently to write +an string to /mnt/debugfs/ltt/write_event. See Userspace tracing in the +installation for sources section of this document.