[lttng-dev] Google Summer of Code

[Jérémie Galarneau]

Certainly seems worthwhile to me although I never heard about debugfs being
phased out. Could you clarify that point?

Jérémie

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Thibault, Daniel <
Daniel.Thibault at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:

>    The Google Summer of Code LTTng entry (
> http://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013) is
> a promising initiative.  May I propose another little project idea?
>
> Babeltrace support for the debugfs (/sys/kernel/debug/tracing) trace format
>
> Brief explanation:
> Provide a Babeltrace plug-in to allow Babeltrace to read from traces
> created by the debugfs service (/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace).
>
> Expected results: A Babeltrace plug-in, tests, examples and documentation.
>
> Skill level: Easy - Medium
>
> Prerequisite Knowledge: C, OO development
>
> Mentors: ?
>
>    Even if the debugfs tracing facility is destined for eventual
> withdrawal from the Linux kernel, it may be of interest to some to recover
> older traces generated in this way -if only in order to be able to process
> them in the same way as CTF text dumps.  Conversion to the babeltrace text
> format should be fairly straightforward; conversion to CTF would be
> trickier.
>
>    Is this idea worthwhile or worthless?
>
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