[issue28909] Adding LTTng-UST tracing support

2018-07-16 Thread Francis Deslauriers
Francis Deslauriers added the comment: Hi all, It seems that, as of right now, the thing blocking this patchset from going forward is the name of the intrumentation point. Two naming approached were suggested: - Keeping PyDtrace* - Changing to PyProbe* I prefer the PyProbe

[issue28909] Adding LTTng-UST tracing support

2017-09-12 Thread Francis Deslauriers
Francis Deslauriers added the comment: Hi all, Is there anything I can do to move this patch-set forward? @Charalampos, I will make sure to include this in the patch. Thank you. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.p

[issue28909] Adding LTTng-UST tracing support

2017-03-03 Thread Francis Deslauriers
Francis Deslauriers added the comment: Here is the documentation patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file46695/0003-Documentation-of-LTTng-UST-tracing-instrumentation.patch ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.p

[issue28909] Adding LTTng-UST tracing support

2017-03-03 Thread Francis Deslauriers
Francis Deslauriers added the comment: > What about `PyProbe`? Given the multitude of tools and techniques in this > space, wouldn't it be worthwhile to clarify things before adding this? I > think conflating `dtrace` and `lttng` would only lead to more confusion for > users as

[issue28909] Adding LTTng-UST tracing support

2017-02-23 Thread Francis Deslauriers
Francis Deslauriers added the comment: I am finally having the time to work in this. > A nit: the name LTTng-UST is rather unfriendly, especially when used without > the dash and in all lowercase characters. Given that we're using "dtrace" and > "systemtap", it

[issue28909] Adding LTTng-UST tracing support

2017-01-09 Thread Francis Deslauriers
Francis Deslauriers added the comment: Thanks Ɓukasz, I will add tests following the example of the DTrace tests and update the Doc/howto/instrumentation.rst file to include this new information. LTTng can be used on all major Linux distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc.) either from

[issue28909] Adding LTTng-UST tracing support

2016-12-16 Thread Francis Deslauriers
Changes by Francis Deslauriers <fdesl...@gmail.com>: -- nosy: +jcea ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28909> ___ _

[issue28909] Adding LTTng-UST tracing support

2016-12-08 Thread Francis Deslauriers
New submission from Francis Deslauriers: This patch extends the tracing infrastructure to support LTTng UserSpace Tracer. Using LTTng-UST, users would have access to a low overhead tracing done entirely from userspace. Depending on the tracing configure option used (none, --with-dtrace