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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC 0/7] LTTng Kernel Instrumentation (Architecture Independent)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:33:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071113193349.214098508@polymtl.ca> (raw)

Hi,

I submit this instrumentation of the main kernel events using markers to the
Linux community as an RFC. This is the instrumentation LTTng (Linux Trace
Toolkit Next Generation, at http://ltt.polymtl.ca) uses.

In addition to this, I also have architecture dependent instrumentation for:
- traps
- system call entry/exit
- kernel thread creation
- IPC call
which I plan to submit a bit later, once these architecture independent core
instrumentation patches will have been discussed.

The goal here is be be able to tell "what the kernel is doing" so we can :
- get execution traces from bug reporters easily.
- help userspace developers to understand the interactions of their programs
  with other processes and with the kernel.

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13 19:33 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 1/7] Include marker.h in kernel.h -- temporary, for code readability Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 2/7] LTTng instrumentation fs Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 3/7] LTTng instrumentation ipc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 4/7] LTTng instrumentation kernel Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-15 23:30   ` Mike Mason
2007-11-15 23:54     ` Mike Mason
2007-11-16  2:42       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-16  2:22     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 5/7] LTTng instrumentation mm Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-15 21:06   ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-15 21:51     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-15 22:16       ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-16 14:30         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 18:04           ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-28 14:09             ` [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (using page_to_pfn) Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-28 16:54               ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-29  2:34                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-29  6:25                   ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-30 16:11                     ` [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated) Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-30 17:46                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-30 17:05                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-30 18:42                           ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-30 19:10                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-04 19:15                               ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-12-04 19:25                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-04 19:40                                   ` Dave Hansen
2007-12-04 20:05                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-04 20:24                                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-12-04 20:28                                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-16 14:47         ` [RFC 5/7] LTTng instrumentation mm Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 18:07           ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 18:52             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 19:00               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 19:43                 ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 19:43               ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 19:52                 ` [PATCH] Cast __page_to_pfn to unsigned long in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 20:09                   ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 20:20                     ` [PATCH] Cast page_to_pfn " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 21:08                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-19 21:19                         ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 21:26                           ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-21 20:12                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-20 17:34                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 6/7] LTTng instrumentation net Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 7/7] Add Markers Into Semaphore Primitives Mathieu Desnoyers

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