Re: [tracecompass-dev] Synchronizing LTTng Kernel and UST Traces ?

[Matthew Khouzam <matthew.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I would like to clarify this a bit, and I also suspect that this may
be more of an LTTng issue.

Is the kernel trace of the host (virtualisor) or the target (virtualisee)?

If your traces are not too large, it would be very cool to see them in a
bug. We can also in that case, if it is a bug, use them as a regression
test. (if you're ok with them being in our test suites)

Thanks for the continued implication in the project, we really
appreciate these questions,

Matthew

On 15-12-17 03:52 AM, Oberhuber, Martin wrote:
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> Hi Tracecompass Experts,
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> I have obtained an LTTng-UST and Kernel Trace in parallel, but looking
> at the respective combined experiment it turns out that Kernel and UST
> seem to use different time sources (there’s a time skew).  Consider
> attached screenshot: The UST event is shown in the middle of syscall
> state, but it would be expected in “lemon_server RUNNING” state.
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> Reading the Trace Compass docs, I see that there’s a synchronization
> feature, but only for network traces and only with experimental
> branches enabled.
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> What could be done to get Kernel and UST traces synchronized ? Or
> should a completely different method of data gathering be considered,
> eg doing “perf record” with uprobes enabled and then converting the
> perf.data to CTF for investigation ? Correlating application traces
> with Kernel event seems a powerful tool to me for understanding
> excessive latencies … perhaps adding UST pthread events could help
> with trace synchronization since these should exist on Kernel and UST
> side ?
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> Many thanks for any pointers !!
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> PS my sample trace was obtained on Linux qemux86, Kernel 4.1 with
> lttng-2.6. I’m happy to share the recorded traces if anybody is
> interested.
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> Thanks,
>
> Martin
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