Embedded Linux debugging/profiling/tracing tools - Overview
- Summary
- (Embedded) Linux debugging/profiling/tracing tools - Overview
- Proposer
- Robert Berger
Description
"If the only tool you have is a hammer all your problems are nails!"
There are quite a few tools for debugging/tracing/profiling user space/kernel/the whole GNU/Linux system. Still most people use printf() and friends due to a lack of knowledge what else is there and/or how to use it. I propose the creation of the centralized place to browse to with this kind of information.
Related work
- gdb - http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
- oprofile - http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/
- kgdb/kdb - https://kgdb.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
- lttng - http://lttng.org/
- ftrace - https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ftrace
- gprof, gcov
... and many more ...
Scope
After the decision how/when and where this will be done I estimate it will take about 4 weeks to put some initial documents together, say on a Wiki. Afterwards this should be an open ended community effort.
Contractor Candidates
As a professional trainer I would like to nominate myself to kick off the project and put up some initial pages which will also act as a template for others to contribute. For clarifications and further details contributors are welcome to assist. This will also give them the opportunity to better present their projects to the community/public.