Linux Plumbers Conf 2014

One Line Summary

Abstract

The Common Trace Format (CTF) has been created to use the same trace analysis tools for bare metal and software (LTTng) tracing initially. Now, gdb is using CTF and the Babeltrace CTF reader library, and there is a prototype converter from Perf traces into CTF, using the Babeltrace CTF writer library.

Discuss the following steps to share common trace format and tools, ranging from conversion to producing CTF natively from the tracers (as an ABI).

Tags

perf, ftrace, systemtap, Trace Format, Common Tools, GDB, LTTng

Speaker

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  Mathieu Desnoyers

  EfficiOS Inc.
  • Website: http://www.efficios.com/
  • Twitter: DesnoyersMa

  Biography

  Mathieu Desnoyers main contributions are in the area of tracing (monitoring/performance analysis/debugging) and scalability, both at the kernel and user-space levels. He is maintainer of the LTTng project and the Userspace RCU library. He works in close collaboration with the telecommunication industry, many Linux distributions, and with customers developing hardware scaling from small embedded devices to large-deployment servers. He is CEO and Senior Software Architect at EfficiOS.

  Sessions

  • * Use of Common Trace Format (CTF) among different tracers
    • Title: Use of Common Trace Format (CTF) among different tracers
    • Microconference: Tracing
    • Time: 10:00am
    • One Line Summary:

      Next steps to share common tracing tools via common trace format

    • Speakers: Mathieu Desnoyers