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| eded6438 | 1 | lttng-regenerate(1) |
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2 | =================== |
| 3 | :revdate: 18 January 2018 | |
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4 | |
| 5 | ||
| 6 | NAME | |
| 7 | ---- | |
| 8 | lttng-regenerate - Manage an LTTng tracing session's data regeneration | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | ||
| 11 | SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | -------- | |
| dbcf3dd3 | 13 | Regenerate the metadata of a session: |
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14 | |
| 15 | [verse] | |
| 16 | *lttng* ['linkgenoptions:(GENERAL OPTIONS)'] *regenerate metadata* [option:--session='SESSION'] | |
| 17 | ||
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18 | Regenerate the state dump of a session: |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | [verse] | |
| 21 | *lttng* ['linkgenoptions:(GENERAL OPTIONS)'] *regenerate statedump* [option:--session='SESSION'] | |
| 22 | ||
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23 | DESCRIPTION |
| 24 | ----------- | |
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25 | The `lttng regenerate` command regenerates specific data of a tracing session. |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | As of this version, the `metadata` and `statedump` actions are | |
| 28 | available. | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | ||
| 31 | Regenerating a tracing session's metadata | |
| 32 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 33 | The `lttng regenerate metadata` action can be used to resample the offset | |
| 34 | between the system's monotonic clock and the wall-clock time. | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | This action is meant to be used to resample the wall-clock time following a | |
| 37 | major link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol[NTP] correction. | |
| 38 | As such, a system booting with an incorrect wall time can be traced before its | |
| 39 | wall time is NTP-corrected. Regenerating the tracing session's metadata ensures | |
| 40 | that trace viewers can accurately determine the events time relative to Unix | |
| 41 | Epoch. | |
| eded6438 | 42 | |
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43 | If you use man:lttng-rotate(1) or man:lttng-enable-rotation(1) to make |
| 44 | tracing session rotations, this action regenerates the current and | |
| 45 | next trace chunks's metadata files. | |
| 46 | ||
| eded6438 | 47 | |
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48 | Regenerating a tracing session's state dump |
| 49 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 50 | The `lttng regenerate statedump` action can be used to collect up-to-date state | |
| 51 | dump information during the tracing session. This is particularly useful in | |
| 52 | snapshot (see man:lttng-snapshot(1)) or trace file rotation (see | |
| 53 | man:lttng-enable-channel(1)) modes where the state dump information may be | |
| 54 | lost. | |
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55 | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | include::common-cmd-options-head.txt[] | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | ||
| 59b19c3c | 60 | option:-s 'SESSION', option:--session='SESSION':: |
| dbcf3dd3 | 61 | Regenerate the data of the tracing session named 'SESSION' |
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62 | instead of the current tracing session. |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | ||
| 65 | include::common-cmd-help-options.txt[] | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | ||
| 68 | LIMITATIONS | |
| 69 | ----------- | |
| 70 | The `lttng regenerate metadata` command can only be used on kernel and | |
| 71 | user space tracing sessions (using per-user buffering), in non-live | |
| 72 | mode. | |
| 73 | ||
| 74 | See man:lttng-enable-channel(1) for more information about | |
| 75 | buffering schemes and man:lttng-create(1) for more information | |
| 76 | about the different tracing session modes. | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | ||
| 79 | include::common-cmd-footer.txt[] | |
| 80 | ||
| 81 | ||
| 82 | SEE ALSO | |
| 83 | -------- | |
| 84 | man:lttng(1) |