Chapter 9: Ftrace Tracing Technology

This chapter contains 12 sections. Click the links below to read them:

1. Technical requirements

2. Kernel tracing technology – an overview

3. Configuring the kernel for ftrace

4. Using ftrace to trace the flow of the kernel

5. Useful ftrace filtering options

6. Case 1 – tracing a single ping with raw ftrace

7. Case 2 – tracing a single ping with raw ftrace via the set_event interface

8. Ftrace – miscellaneous remaining points via FAQs

9. Ftrace use cases

10. Using the trace-cmd, KernelShark, and perf-tools ftrace frontends

11. An introduction to kernel tracing with LTTng and Trace Compass

12. Further reading

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