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== Patches == | == Patches == |
Revision as of 11:01, 24 July 2009
This page holds information from Tim Bird's talk at Linux Symposium Montreal (July, 2009). Tim talked about patches against the 2.6.31-rc1 kernel tree for adding function graph tracing to the ARM architecture, for the Ftrace system.
Contents
Presentation
Here is the presentation from the symposium session:
Paper
Here is Tim's paper for this work:
Patches
The following patches were submitted to the kernel mailing list in early July 2009. There are patches against kernel version 2.6.31-rc1.
- Media:Arm-sched_clock-notrace.patch
- Media:Add-function-graph-tracer-support-for-ARM.patch
- Media:Func-graph-duration-filter.patch
- Media:Optimize-duration-filter-discard.patch
Tools
- Media:Ftd.txt - Function Trace Dump - post-trace analysis tool
To install:
* Download * rename to 'ftd': mv Ftd.txt ftd * make it executable: chmod a+x * Put it on your path somewhere: sudo mv ftd /usr/local/bin