[lttng-dev] [RELEASE] LTTng 2.0 prerelease bundle 20111213

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

Update: prerelease bundle 20111214 updates lttng-ust to 1.9.2 which
adds missing files to the dist tarball.

Best regards,

Mathieu

* Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com) wrote:
> LTTng, the Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation, is a highly efficient
> full system tracing solution toolchain. It is composed of several
> components to allow tracing of the kernel, of userspace, trace viewing
> and analysis and trace streaming. LTTng is open source software.
> 
> New Features:
> 
> - Userspace Tracing Support. LTTng-UST is now available providing
>   application and library tracing with the same look and feel as for
>   LTTng kernel tracing.
> - LTTng 2.0 kernel modules build against a vanilla or distribution
>   kernel, without need for additional patches,
> - Tracepoints, detailed syscall tracing (fast strace replacement),
>   CPU Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) counters, dynamic address/symbol
>   probing (kprobes) and function call/return tracing (kretprobes support),
> - Have the ability to attach "context" information to events in the
>   trace (e.g. any PMU counter, pid, ppid, tid, comm name, etc).
>   All the extra information fields to be collected with events are
>   optional, specified on a per-tracing-session basis (except for
>   timestamp and event id, which are mandatory).
> - Allows non-root users part of the "tracing" group to perform kernel
>   and userspace tracing.
> - Allows multiple tracing sessions to be active concurrently, each with
>   its own instrumentation set.
> - Integrated interface for both kernel and userspace tracing,
> - Produces CTF (Common Trace Format) natively,
>   (http://www.efficios.com/ctf)
> 
> You can get a the current release "bundle" (recommanded set of packages)
> at the following URL to get started:
> 
> http://lttng.org/bundles/
> 
> Please refer to the individual package changelogs for details on the
> recent changes.
> 
> Project website: http://lttng.org
> Download link: http://lttng.org/lttng2.0
> (please refer to the README files for installation instructions and
> lttng-tools doc/quickstart.txt for usage information)
> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Desnoyers
> Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
> EfficiOS Inc.
> http://www.efficios.com

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com