Re: LTTng for ST40 kernel 2.6.23.1

Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:42:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.tracing
Message-ID <20071031144212.GA31777@Krystal>
* Giuseppe Cavallaro ([email protected]) wrote:
> Mathieu,
> 
> So I'll try to import missing marks etc into the kernel 2.6.23.1.
> I know, that will take a while.
> I'll let you know.
> 

With the new series file and simplification of LTTng patches, there is
less and less conflicts. That should be quite straightforward.

For the marker patches, I suggest that you just grab them from
Andrew's 2.6.23-mm1 patchset (look into his series file for the markers
related patches). This is what I did for the pre7 port.

Mathieu

> Thanks again,
> Giuseppe
> 
> On 31/10/2007, Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > * Giuseppe Cavallaro ([email protected]) wrote:
> > > Sorry Mathieu,
> > > I've not clear, if I've to apply the
> > > patch-2.6.23-mm1-lttng-0.10-pre9.tar.bz2 patch file instead of the
> > > patch-2.6.23.1-lttng-0.10-pre7-port.tar.bz2; my kernel is *2.6.23.1*.
> > >
> >
> > I just made patch-2.6.23-mm1-lttng-0.10-pre10.tar.bz2 available, which
> > includes an s390 fix.
> >
> > Actually, the patchset will not apply as-is to 2.6.23.1 : mainly, the
> > linux kernel markers are missing from 2.6.23.1 and should be copied from
> > a 2.6.23-mm1 tree. You can use the pre7 2.6.23.1 port I made as an
> > example of how to do the port from 2.6.23-mm1 to 2.6.23.1.
> >
> > You'll need Andrew Morton's patches at:
> >
> >
> > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/2.6.23-mm1-broken-out.tar.bz2
> >
> > I think I'll focus on the main development (currently 2.6.23-mm1) and
> > let others do stable ports, otherwise it would slow down development too
> > much. I am always interested in a tarball of a port to a stable kernel
> > version.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mathieu
> >
> > > thanks,
> > > Giuseppe
> > >
> > > On 31/10/2007, Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This is now moved to ltt/ltt-timestamp.c, enabled by a different
> > > > menuconfig option. SH isn't taken care of in the Kconfig though, but
> > > > it's all good in the next release.
> > > >
> > > > Speaking of which:
> > > >
> > > > http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.23-mm1-lttng-0.10-pre9.tar.bz2
> > > >
> > > > contains all this. (including SH instrumentation fix)
> > > >
> > > >
> >
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