X-Git-Url: http://git.lttng.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=1fd49b68dea49d650b394c064a4c43f73a5bbabe;hb=f66cbcc8274ff48ead50b649f9737662a6286fa3;hp=3bd0d153a7eacbe48e0b4dc25701a107e8153b06;hpb=e5fb2910ea78d0dd7be05521d13ea74b11dbe812;p=lttng-modules.git diff --git a/README b/README index 3bd0d153..1fd49b68 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ LTTng 2.0 modules Mathieu Desnoyers -July 19, 2011 +February 8, 2012 LTTng 2.0 kernel modules build against a vanilla or distribution kernel, without need for additional patches. Other features: @@ -22,21 +22,20 @@ access to your full kernel source tree), and use: % make # make modules_install +# depmod -a If you need to specify the target directory to the kernel you want to build against, use: % KERNELDIR=path_to_kernel_dir make # KERNELDIR=path_to_kernel_dir make modules_install +# depmod -a kernel_version Use lttng-tools to control the tracer. LTTng tools should automatically load the kernel modules when needed. Use Babeltrace to print traces as a human-readable text log. These tools are available at the following URL: http://lttng.org/lttng2.0 -Please note that the LTTng-UST 2.0 (user-space tracing counterpart of LTTng 2.0) -is still in active development and not released yet. - So far, it has been tested on vanilla Linux kernels 2.6.38, 2.6.39 and 3.0 (on x86 32/64-bit, and powerpc 32-bit at the moment, build tested on ARM). It should work fine with newer kernels and other architectures, but expect build issues @@ -47,6 +46,10 @@ note that lttng-modules 2.0 can build on a Linux kernel patched with the LTTng 0.x patchset, but the lttng-modules 2.0 replace the lttng-modules 0.x, so both tracers cannot be installed at the same time for a given kernel version. +LTTng-modules depends on having kallsyms enabled in the kernel it is +built against. Ideally, if you want to have system call tracing, the +"Trace Syscalls" feature should be enabled too. + * Note about Perf PMU counters support Each PMU counter has its zero value set when it is attached to a context with