The Linux Plumbers 2017 Tracing track is focusing on the various tracing infrastructures in Linux today and how various people and companies use them.
Building your own tools around existing kernel infrastructure
Wishlist items for kernel tracing
Issues that have been discovered using tracing
New features in bpf/perf/ftrace
Visualization frameworks
Distributed tracing
Always-on analytics and monitoring (including TCP/networking/storage)
Tracing at large scale
Hardware Tracing (including latest work in perf/CoreSight and trace decoders)
Integration of trace buffering and aggregation tools
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (declined)
Ingo Molnar (declined)
Steve Rostedt (accepted)
Brendan Gregg (accepted)
Martin Lau (accepted)
Daniel Borkmann (accepted)
Brenden Blanco
Mathieu Desnoyers (accepted)
David Ahern (tentative)
Sasha Goldshtein (declined)
Suchakra Sharma (attending)
Allan McAleavy
Yonghong Song (accepted)
Wang Nan (declined)
He Kuang
Ming Lei (declined)
Daniel Wagner
Josh Poimboeuf (tentative)
Mark Drayton
Teng Qin (accepted)
Marek Vavrusa
Andi Kleen (declined)
Mathieu Poirier (accepted - unless clashes with “power management and energy awareness”)
Jim Mauro
Abderrahmane [Abder] Benbachir (attending)
Namhyung Kim (attending)
Masami Hiramatsu (attending)
Geneviève Bastien (attending)
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
Staffan Tjernstrom
Manoj Rao
Please feel free to add your name and proposal here.
Next BPF tools, eg, chaingraphs (Brendan)
CTF for maps (Brenden)
Faster uprobes/kerninst (Brenden/Yonghong)
Hardware Tracing with PT (VM Analysis and kernel-assisted trace re-construction for JITed code) (Suchakra)
Trace Visualization: eBPF to CTF (Common Trace Format), perf to CTF and trace analysis with Trace Compass (Suchakra/Geneviève)
LLVM for BPF (Yonghong)
Hypertracing: Tracing through virtualization layers (Abder)
user + kernel tracing w/ uftrace (Namhyung)
addr→sym resolution by kernel in stack traces (Alexei)
Challenges related to doing real world debugging for non-kernel engineers (Josef)
Debugging BPF programs on production systems remotely, even when you are a kernel engineer (JohnF)
No schedule as of yet.
Note: The final schedule will be posted on the linuxplumberscong.org website on the Schedule page. Presentation slides will available on the Plumbers page by following the links to the abstracts.
Notes from the sessions will be recorded using Etherpads (links will be provided). It is very important that each session has good notes. All too often, if notes were not written down, the session might as well not have happened.
