[ltt-dev] LTTng 0.89 for Linux 2.6.29-rc3

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Paul E. McKenney (paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:22:49PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:31:59PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > > > * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:52:16PM +0530, Trilok Soni wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Paul,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> > > > > > <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> Are you using quilt to apply the patchset series file in the right order ?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Ummm...  No.  I never have used quilt.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Ah, there is a series file.  I guess it would not be too hard to make
> > > > > > > an appropriate "sh" command:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > How about trying?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > #quilt push -a
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is the appropriate incantation as follows?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	cd <top of git tree>
> > > > > 	mkdir patches
> > > > > 	cp /tmp/patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92/* patches
> > > > > 	quilt push -a
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, exactly.
> > > 
> > > Whew!  ;-)
> > > 
> > > > And from there you can follow the LTTng manual here :
> > > > 
> > > > http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/lttv/LTTngManual.html
> > > 
> > > I get some fuzz and the following:
> > > 
> > > 	patching file kernel/trace/trace-clock-32-to-64.c
> > > 	Patch attempted to create file kernel/trace/trace-clock-32-to-64.c,
> > > 	which already exists.
> > > 	Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
> > > 	1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file
> > > 	kernel/trace/trace-clock-32-to-64.c
> > > 
> > > Should I be starting from somewhere other than v2.6.29-rc3?
> > > 
> > 
> > Let's see it step by step, that should get us there.
> > 
> > With patches :
> > 
> > mkdir ~/lttng
> > cd ~/lttng
> > wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.29-rc3.tar.bz2
> > wget http://lttng.org/files/lttng/patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92.tar.bz2
> > bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.29-rc3.tar.bz2 |tar xvof -
> > bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92.tar.bz2  |tar xvof -
> > cd linux-2.6.29-rc3
> > mkdir patches
> > ln -s ../patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92 patches
> > quilt push -a
> > 
> > Does this work ?
> 
> Leaving out the "mkdir", yes.

Ah, yes, my mistake.

> My apologies -- I was forgetting that
> "git reset --hard" doesn't get rid of untracked files.  I do see fuzz
> in a few places, but hopefully this is non-fatal.  And in any case, I
> can now make the patch required to actually try this out.  ;-)
> 

Great !

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any question.

Mathieu

> 						Thanx, Paul
> 

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