Tracing with Ftrace - Critical Tooling for Linux Development

Explore the critical tooling for Linux development in this live mentorship session focused on tracing with Ftrace. Dive deep into the internal kernel infrastructure that connects callbacks to nearly every function in the Linux kernel. Learn about the broader tracing infrastructure, including function tracing, trace events, dynamic events, histograms, and other tracers. Discover how the tracefs file system controls this infrastructure through its files and directories. Gain insights into enabling, disabling, and retrieving tracing results. Examine the various aspects of the tracing infrastructure, understand the usage of tracefs, and explore new libraries that simplify access to the ftrace tracing infrastructure for applications. Join Steven Rostedt, Open Source Engineer at VMware, for this hour-long session to enhance your Linux development skills and knowledge of essential tracing tools.