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This page contains basic information and simple examples to help you get started with each of the tracing and profiling tools available in Yocto.  There is no overall structure - each tool is simply listed in alphabetical order.  If you'd like to see more involved real-world use cases that make use of how you might use these tools in concert, see [[Tracing and Profiling End-to-End Examples]].
This page contains basic information and simple examples to help you get started with each of the tracing and profiling tools available in Yocto.  There is no overall structure - each tool is simply listed in alphabetical order.  If you'd like to see more involved real-world use cases that show  how you might use these tools in concert, see [[Tracing and Profiling End-to-End Examples]].





Revision as of 22:49, 10 January 2011

Tracing and Profiling in Yocto

Yocto bundles a large number of tracing and profiling tools; many of them are available however only in 'sdk' images. So, in order to be able to access all of the tools described here, please first build and boot an 'sdk' image e.g.

$ bitbake poky-image-sdk-live

This page contains basic information and simple examples to help you get started with each of the tracing and profiling tools available in Yocto. There is no overall structure - each tool is simply listed in alphabetical order. If you'd like to see more involved real-world use cases that show how you might use these tools in concert, see Tracing and Profiling End-to-End Examples.


blktrace

blktrace is a tool for tracing and reporting low-level disk I/O. blktrace provides the tracing half of the equation; its output can be piped into the blkparse program, which renders the data in a human-readable form and does some basic analysis:

$ blktrace /dev/sda | blkparse -

systemtap

SystemTap is a system-wide script-based tracing and profiling tool.