Re: [MirageOS-devel] Mirage tracing status

[Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 December 2014 at 22:01, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11 Nov 2014, at 15:56, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I've been making some updates to the mirage tracing support, which is now 
>> here:
>>
>>  https://github.com/mirage/mirage-profile
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> If anyone has had any success using the tracing themselves (or got
>> stuck), let me know!
>>
>
> I've got tracing output on my Mac now as well, in the form of a CTF file.
>
> What's the process of getting the HTML5 viewer working with the CTF
> files?  It appears to be using the old marshalled format at the moment.

I've just added CTF support, so it should work now.

It still needs to be made easier though. Ideally, I think it should
work something like this:

dom0# mirage-trace-vewier dom:www --browser
Open this page in your browser to see the trace:
https://cubietruck.local/oovohchi6kio0G/index.html

I'd like to unify the various tools for collecting and viewing traces.
We have three input methods:

- snapshot a Xen guest via shared memory
- snapshot a Unix process via an mmapped file
- load a saved .ctf trace file

and three output methods:

- run the GTK viewer
- generate JavaScript to post on the web
- save as .ctf
- serve a web-page directly (not yet implemented)

If I understand correctly, building GTK on OS X is difficult (though
possible, since 0install uses it), so that needs to be optional.

Building support for reading from a Xen guest requires xenstore
support, which is also difficult to build (requires Xen headers), so
that needs to be optional too.

It would also be good to be able to ship a binary of this. I might try
something with Dynlink for GTK so it will still work on platforms
without it (this is what 0install does).


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