Re: [ltt-dev] LTTng 0.89 for Linux 2.6.29-rc3

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 16:04:27 EST


On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:22:49PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:31:59PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > > * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:52:16PM +0530, Trilok Soni wrote:
> > > > > Hi Paul,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> > > > > <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Are you using quilt to apply the patchset series file in the right order ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ummm... No. I never have used quilt.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ah, there is a series file. I guess it would not be too hard to make
> > > > > > an appropriate "sh" command:
> > > > >
> > > > > How about trying?
> > > > >
> > > > > #quilt push -a
> > > >
> > > > Is the appropriate incantation as follows?
> > > >
> > > > cd <top of git tree>
> > > > mkdir patches
> > > > cp /tmp/patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92/* patches
> > > > quilt push -a
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, exactly.
> >
> > Whew! ;-)
> >
> > > And from there you can follow the LTTng manual here :
> > >
> > > http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/lttv/LTTngManual.html
> >
> > I get some fuzz and the following:
> >
> > patching file kernel/trace/trace-clock-32-to-64.c
> > Patch attempted to create file kernel/trace/trace-clock-32-to-64.c,
> > which already exists.
> > Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
> > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file
> > kernel/trace/trace-clock-32-to-64.c
> >
> > Should I be starting from somewhere other than v2.6.29-rc3?
> >
>
> Let's see it step by step, that should get us there.
>
> With patches :
>
> mkdir ~/lttng
> cd ~/lttng
> wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.29-rc3.tar.bz2
> wget http://lttng.org/files/lttng/patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92.tar.bz2
> bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.29-rc3.tar.bz2 |tar xvof -
> bzip2 -cd patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92.tar.bz2 |tar xvof -
> cd linux-2.6.29-rc3
> mkdir patches
> ln -s ../patch-2.6.29-rc3-lttng-0.92 patches
> quilt push -a
>
> Does this work ?

Leaving out the "mkdir", yes. My apologies -- I was forgetting that
"git reset --hard" doesn't get rid of untracked files. I do see fuzz
in a few places, but hopefully this is non-fatal. And in any case, I
can now make the patch required to actually try this out. ;-)

Thanx, Paul
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