Difference between revisions of "Ftrace Function Graph ARM"

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  * make it executable: ''chmod a+x''
 
  * make it executable: ''chmod a+x''
 
  * Put it on your path somewhere: ''sudo mv ftd /usr/local/bin''
 
  * Put it on your path somewhere: ''sudo mv ftd /usr/local/bin''
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== Further Work ==
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Base on feeback from ftrace developers on the kernel mailing list, and from other
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developers at the tracing mini-summit, I started working on an updated duration
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tracer, using a different filtering approach.  This work already looks very
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promising, but is not ready for release yet (as of July 24, 2009).  I will
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also be reporting on this work at ELC Europe and the Japan Linux Symposium, so
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look for some updates to this page in October, 2009, if this stuff hasn't
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been mainlined by then.

Revision as of 11:30, 24 July 2009

This page holds information from Tim Bird's talk at Linux Symposium Montreal (July, 2009). Tim talked about patches against the 2.6.31-rc1 kernel tree for adding function graph tracing to the ARM architecture, for the Ftrace system.

Presentation

Here is the presentation from the symposium session:

Paper

Here is Tim's paper for this work:

Patches

The following patches were submitted to the kernel mailing list in early July 2009. There are patches against kernel version 2.6.31-rc1.

Tools

To install:

* Download
* rename to 'ftd': mv Ftd.txt ftd
* make it executable: chmod a+x
* Put it on your path somewhere: sudo mv ftd /usr/local/bin

Further Work

Base on feeback from ftrace developers on the kernel mailing list, and from other developers at the tracing mini-summit, I started working on an updated duration tracer, using a different filtering approach. This work already looks very promising, but is not ready for release yet (as of July 24, 2009). I will also be reporting on this work at ELC Europe and the Japan Linux Symposium, so look for some updates to this page in October, 2009, if this stuff hasn't been mainlined by then.