[lttng-dev] feedback about "Dynamic Tracing with DTrace SystemTap"

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com
Fri Dec 2 20:43:27 UTC 2016


Not sure if you still have access to your Tune It email,
so CCing your other address.

----- On Dec 2, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com wrote:

> Hi Sergey,
> 
> We recently stumbled upon your PDF "Dynamic Tracing with DTrace SystemTap",
> at http://myaut.github.io/dtrace-stap-book/dtrace-stap-book-ns.pdf . We noticed
> some outdated information about LTTng on page 14.
> 
> LTTng has _not_ required any kernel recompilation since LTTng 2.0, released in
> 2012. It hooks on the few hundreds of kernel tracepoints, and can also use
> kprobes for dynamic instrumentation. Also, LTTng hooking on tracepoints does
> not fit in the "debug printing" instrumentation class the document associates
> it with.
> 
> Let us know if you need help to rectify those statements. You can find a
> comprehensive LTTng documentation at http://lttng.org/docs
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mathieu
> 
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