Re: [GIT PULL] tracing/rtla: Updates to the RTLA tool

[Daniel Bristot de Oliveira]

On 3/23/22 19:15, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 7:30 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I'm sending this as a separate pull request from my normal tracing tree, as
>> it had dependencies to commits in your tree but not in my development
>> branch. As it only affects the tools/ directory, I kept it separate as it
>> has no changes to the kernel itself.
> 
> Yes, please keep the tooling updates separate from the kernel ones,
> the way we now for some time have for the perf tooling too.
> 
> That said, mentioning the perf tools, I wish the tracing tools would
> do a bit more package checking and helpful error messages too, rather
> than just fail with
> 
>     fatal error: tracefs.h: No such file or directory
> 
> when (presumably) libtracefs and friends are needed.
> 
> Hmm?

Yes, we need to improve the Makefile.

It depends on procps-ng-devel and python3-docutils packages and the latest
libtracefs (1.3) and libtraceevent (1.5). There is info about it in the README,
but we definitely need to improve the Makefile... I will prioritize that.

-- Daniel
>               Linus