Re: LTTng 0.89 for Linux 2.6.29-rc3

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 10:28:58 EST


On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:02:42AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:07:57PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just ported LTTng to the 2.6.29-rc3 kernel. It includes the following
> > > changes :
> > >
> > > - Tree RCU instrumentation
> > > - Updated ext4 and jbd2 instrumentation
> > >
> > > Please feel free to try it and report any success/problem you may have.
> > > Note that cross-build has been slightly less tested this time because
> > > I'll have to upgrade many of my compilers to a version compatible with
> > > kernel 2.6.29-rc.
> > >
> > > It also includes the recently added kprobes support through a simple
> > >
> > > echo symbol_name > /mnt/debugfs/ltt/kprobes/enable
> > >
> > > It's available at the new LTTng website :
> > >
> > > http://www.lttng.org/
> >
> > Hello, Matheiu,
> >
> > When I try to apply this to v2.6.29-rc3, I get the following:
> >
> > can't find file to patch at input line 61
> > Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> > The text leading up to this was:
> > --------------------------
> > |get_ltt_root() is necessary for ltt-trace-control to create subdirs in
> > ltt's
> > |debugfs dir.
> > |
> > |From: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > |Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > |Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > |---
> > | include/linux/ltt-core.h | 8 ++++++++
> > | ltt/ltt-core.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > | ltt/ltt-relay.c | 8 +-------
> > | 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > |
> > |Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/linux/ltt-core.h
> > |===================================================================
> > |--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/linux/ltt-core.h 2009-01-15
> > 15:55:18.000000000 -0500
> > |+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/linux/ltt-core.h 2009-01-15
> > 15:55:24.000000000 -0500
> >
> > Help?
> >
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> I must admit I'm a bit puzzled. I've tried to quilt push -a both
> LTTng 0.89 and LTTng 0.92 taken from the website and they both apply
> correctly on 2.6.29-rc3. When I quilt pop -a, neither of those 3 files
> (include/linux/ltt-core.h, ltt/ltt-core.c, ltt/ltt-relay.c) are stucked
> in my tree.
>
> I've used files from :
>
> http://www.lttng.org/files/lttng/patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92.tar.bz2
>
> Which tarballs are you using exactly ?

That is indeed the one that I am using.

> I guess you need to apply them to your existing tree, so pointing you to
> git.kernel.org lttng tree won't help much here.

I am attempting to apply to v2.6.29-rc3, which is commit
18e352e4a73465349711a9324767e1b2453383e2 in the linux-2.6 git tree.

Later on, I might well want to apply on top of some other stuff, but
figured I should try it straight first. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

> Mathieu
>
> > Thanx, Paul
>
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