See What Your Computer Is Doing With Ftrace Utilities

This tutorial covers using Ftrace from the command line to inspect Linux application scheduling, page faults, and system activity. It also introduces trace-cmd for post-processing traces and KernelShark for viewing them graphically.

Syllabus

Introduction
Mount Ftrace
Readme file
Available tracers
HW tracer
Current tracer
Tracing on
Redirection
Trace Marker
C Code
Function Tracing
Filter Functions
Filter Clock
Function Graph Trace
Ftrace Search
Ftrace Points
LS Events
Enable trace events
Turn off current tracer
Enabling trace events
Enabling all trace events
Whats in the event
Design of the output
Read format
Batch completion
Event triggers
Triggers
Trigger Special
Why Ftrace
Unmount
Splice
Make Install Dock
Ftrace Command Reset
Title
Bash
Strace