[lttng-dev] LTTng Support for Mount Namespace

[Michael Jeanson]

On 2021-01-12 15 h 30, Mohammad Kavousi wrote:
> Before, I was installing using the ppa repository. Based on your 
> instructions, I made lttng using the source code in a totally new 
> environment, having the mount.h under '/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/fs'.
> 
> I removed the "ifneq" and "endif" statements for 'Makefile' and 
> 'Kbuild.common' which were surrounding "mnt_ns_dep". lttng was installed 
> successfully and the kernel trace session started, but I'm still getting 
> the same error.

Make sure you delete 'ccflags-y += -DLTTNG_MNT_NS_MISSING_HEADER' from 
Kbuild.common, this is what disables the mount namespace support when 
the modules are built.

> 
> As a hint, in the build process for lttng-modules, I found messages such 
> as "./fs/ext4/*.h not found". Is that part of the problem? Meaning, is 
> enabling the mnt context filesystem-specific?

No this is related to the probe that enables ext4 specific tracepoints.