From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754259Ab2BTVZs (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:25:48 -0500 Received: from mail.openrapids.net ([64.15.138.104]:41067 "EHLO blackscsi.openrapids.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753741Ab2BTVZr (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:25:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:25:44 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org, tiwg@multicore-association.org Subject: [RELEASE] LTTng 2.0 Release Candidates Message-ID: <20120220212544.GA11708@Krystal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://www.efficios.com X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.26-2-686 (i686) X-Uptime: 16:22:16 up 454 days, 2:25, 6 users, load average: 0.12, 0.05, 0.01 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org LTTng, the Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation, is a highly efficient full system tracing solution toolchain. It is composed of several components to allow tracing of the kernel, of userspace, trace viewing and analysis and trace streaming. LTTng is open source software. The LTTng toolchain is now entering Release Candidate cycle, which means that we commit to stable APIs and ABIs (no breakage, extension-only) across the entire 2.x series, and feature-freeze (no extension) for the 2.0 series. We plan to release LTTng 2.0 final on March 20, 2012. For the entire RC time-frame the latest packages under section "Download Toolchain Source Packages" from the following URL should be used: http://lttng.org/lttng2.0 As a side-note, the babeltrace project, used for viewing/parsing CTF traces, is entering its prerelease cycle, with version 1.0.0-pre1. Project website: http://lttng.org Download link: http://lttng.org/lttng2.0 (please refer to the README files for installation instructions and lttng-tools doc/quickstart.txt for usage information) Key Features: - Efficient synchronized User-space and Kernel tracing using the same time-source provides view of correlated kernel and user-space events. - LTTng 2.0 kernel modules build against a vanilla or distribution kernel, without need for additional patches, - Tracepoints, detailed syscall tracing (fast strace replacement), CPU Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) counters, dynamic address/symbol probing (kprobes) and function call/return tracing (kretprobes support), - Have the ability to attach "context" information to events in the trace (e.g. any PMU counter, pid, ppid, tid, comm name, etc). All the extra information fields to be collected with events are optional, specified on a per-tracing-session basis (except for timestamp and event id, which are mandatory). - Allows non-root users part of the "tracing" group to perform kernel and userspace tracing. - Allows multiple tracing sessions to be active concurrently, each with its own instrumentation set. - Integrated interface for both kernel and userspace tracing, - Produces CTF (Common Trace Format) natively, (http://www.efficios.com/ctf) -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com