Re: LTTng and SystemTAP

Mathieu Desnoyers writes:
 > Hi Tom,
 > 
 > I cannot find in which email you proposed it, but it would be very interesting
 > to have SystemTAP outputting its buffers to LTTng. It should be quite
 > straightforward :
 > 
 > 1 - Create a new XML facility (systemtap), with an event (log) in it, which
 > would take a sequence of char or a simple string as parameter.
 > 
 > 2 - run genevent to create the facility, copy it into the LTTng patched kernel.
 > 
 > 3 - Adapt Systemtap to use the generated inline function to send its data out
 > instead of directly using relayfs.
 > 
 > If anyone has time to try this, it would be very interesting to see the result.
 > 

Yeah, I think it would be a useful exercise - I'll give it a shot, but
probably won't be able to get to it until the weekend...

Tom