lttng-enable-channel(1)

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NAME

6       lttng-enable-channel - Create or enable LTTng channels
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SYNOPSIS

9       Create a Linux kernel channel:
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11       lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] enable-channel --kernel
12             [--discard | --overwrite] [--output=(mmap | splice)]
13             [--subbuf-size=SIZE] [--num-subbuf=COUNT]
14             [--switch-timer=PERIODUS] [--read-timer=PERIODUS]
15             [--monitor-timer=PERIODUS] [--buffers-global]
16             [--tracefile-size=SIZE [--tracefile-count=COUNT]]
17             [--session=SESSION] CHANNEL
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19       Create a user space channel:
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21       lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] enable-channel --userspace
22             [--overwrite | [--discard] --blocking-timeout=TIMEOUTUS]
23             [--output=mmap] [--buffers-uid | --buffers-pid]
24             [--subbuf-size=SIZE] [--num-subbuf=COUNT]
25             [--switch-timer=PERIODUS] [--read-timer=PERIODUS]
26             [--monitor-timer=PERIODUS]
27             [--tracefile-size=SIZE [--tracefile-count=COUNT]]
28             [--session=SESSION] CHANNEL
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30       Enable channel(s):
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32       lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] enable-channel (--userspace | --kernel)
33             [--session=SESSION] CHANNEL[,CHANNEL]...
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DESCRIPTION

36       The lttng enable-channel command does one of:
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38       •   Create a channel named CHANNEL.
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40       •   Enable one or more disabled channels named CHANNEL (non-option
41           argument, comma-separated).
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43       See lttng-concepts(7) to learn more about channels.
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45       The channel(s) to create or enable belong to:
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47       With the --session=SESSION option
48           The recording session named SESSION.
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50       Without the --session option
51           The current recording session (see lttng-concepts(7) to learn more
52           about the current recording session).
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54       Note
55           The lttng-enable-event(1) command can automatically create a
56           default channel when no channel exists for the provided tracing
57           domain.
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59       See the “EXAMPLES” section below for usage examples.
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61       List the channels of a given recording session with the lttng-list(1)
62       and lttng-status(1) commands.
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64       Disable an enabled channel with the lttng-disable-channel(1) command.
65
66       Important
67           As of LTTng 2.13.4, you may NOT perform the following operations
68           with the enable-channel command:
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70           •   Change an attribute of an existing channel.
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72           •   Enable a disabled channel once its recording session has been
73               active (started; see lttng-start(1)) at least once.
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75           •   Create a channel once its recording session has been active at
76               least once.
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78           •   Create a user space channel with a given buffering scheme
79               (--buffers-uid or --buffers-pid options) and create a second
80               user space channel with a different buffering scheme in the
81               same recording session.
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OPTIONS

84       See lttng(1) for GENERAL OPTIONS.
85
86   Tracing domain
87       One of:
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89       -k, --kernel
90           Create or enable channels in the Linux kernel domain.
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92       -u, --userspace
93           Create or enable channels in the user space domain.
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95   Recording target
96       -s SESSION, --session=SESSION
97           Create or enable channels in the recording session named SESSION
98           instead of the current recording session.
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100   Buffering scheme
101       One of:
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103       --buffers-global
104           Allocate a single set of ring buffers for the whole system.
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106           Only available with the --kernel option.
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108           As of LTTng 2.13.4, this is the default buffering scheme for the
109           Linux kernel tracing domain, but this may change in the future.
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111       --buffers-pid
112           Allocate one set of ring buffers (one per CPU) for each
113           instrumented process of:
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115           If you connect to the root session daemon
116               All Unix users.
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118               See the “Session daemon connection” section of lttng(1) to
119               learn how a user application connects to a session daemon.
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121           Otherwise
122               Your Unix user.
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124           Only available with the --userspace option.
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126       --buffers-uid
127           Allocate one set of ring buffers (one per CPU) shared by all the
128           instrumented processes of:
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130           If you connect to the root session daemon
131               Each Unix user.
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133               See the “Session daemon connection” section of lttng(1) to
134               learn how a user application connects to a session daemon.
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136           Otherwise
137               Your Unix user.
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139           Only available with the --userspace option.
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141           As of LTTng 2.13.4, this is the default buffering scheme for the
142           user space tracing domain, but this may change in the future.
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144   Event record loss mode
145       --blocking-timeout=TIMEOUTUS
146           Set the channel’s blocking timeout value to TIMEOUTUS µs for
147           instrumented applications executed with a set
148           LTTNG_UST_ALLOW_BLOCKING environment variable.
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150           TIMEOUTUS is one of:
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152           0 (default)
153               Do not block (non-blocking mode).
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155           inf
156               Block forever until a sub-buffer is available to write the
157               event record.
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159           N, a positive value
160               Wait for at most N µs when trying to write to a sub-buffer.
161               After N µs, discard the event record.
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163           This option is only available with both the --userspace and
164           --discard options.
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166       One of:
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168       --discard
169           Discard event records when there’s no available sub-buffer.
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171           As of LTTng 2.13.4, this is the default event record loss mode, but
172           this may change in the future.
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174       --overwrite
175           Overwrite the whole sub-buffer containing the oldest event records
176           when there’s no available sub-buffer (flight recorder mode).
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178   Sub-buffers
179       --num-subbuf=COUNT
180           Use COUNT sub-buffers per ring buffer.
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182           The effective value is COUNT rounded up to the next power of two.
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184           Default values:
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186           --userspace and --buffers-uid options
187               4
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189           --userspace and --buffers-pid options
190               4
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192           --kernel and --buffers-global options
193               4
194
195           metadata channel
196               2
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198       --output=TYPE
199           Set channel’s output type to TYPE.
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201           TYPE is one of:
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203           mmap
204               Share ring buffers between the tracer and the consumer daemon
205               with the mmap(2) system call.
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207           splice
208               Share ring buffers between the tracer and the consumer daemon
209               with the splice(2) system call.
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211               Only available with the --kernel option.
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213           Default values:
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215           --userspace and --buffers-uid options
216               mmap
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218           --userspace and --buffers-pid options
219               mmap
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221           --kernel and --buffers-global options
222               splice
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224           metadata channel
225               mmap
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227       --subbuf-size=SIZE
228           Set the size of each sub-buffer to SIZE bytes.
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230           The effective value is SIZE rounded up to the next power of two.
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232           The k (KiB), M (MiB), and G (GiB) suffixes are supported.
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234           The minimum sub-buffer size, for each tracer, is the maximum value
235           between the default below and the system page size (see getconf(1)
236           with the PAGE_SIZE variable).
237
238           Default values:
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240           --userspace and --buffers-uid options
241               524288
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243           --userspace and --buffers-pid options
244               16384
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246           --kernel and --buffers-global options
247               1048576
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249           metadata channel
250               4096
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252   Trace files
253       --tracefile-count=COUNT
254           Limit the number of trace files which LTTng writes for this channel
255           to COUNT.
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257           COUNT set to 0 means “unlimited”.
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259           Default: 0.
260
261           You must also use the --tracefile-size option with this option.
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263       --tracefile-size=SIZE
264           Set the maximum size of each trace file which LTTng writes for this
265           channel to SIZE bytes.
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267           SIZE set to 0 means “unlimited”.
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269           Default: 0.
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271           Note
272               Data streams which LTTng writes for a channel configured with
273               this option may inaccurately report discarded event records as
274               of CTF 1.8.
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276   Timers
277       --monitor-timer=PERIODUS
278           Set the period of the monitor timer of the channel to PERIODUS µs.
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280           Set PERIODUS to 0 to disable the monitor timer.
281
282           Default values:
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284           --userspace and --buffers-uid options
285               1000000
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287           --userspace and --buffers-pid options
288               1000000
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290           --kernel and --buffers-global options
291               1000000
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293       --read-timer=PERIODUS
294           Set the period of the read timer of the channel to PERIODUS µs.
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296           Set PERIODUS to 0 to disable the read timer.
297
298           Default values:
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300           --userspace and --buffers-uid options
301               0
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303           --userspace and --buffers-pid options
304               0
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306           --kernel and --buffers-global options
307               200000
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309           metadata channel
310               0
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312       --switch-timer=PERIODUS
313           Set the period of the switch timer of the channel to PERIODUS µs.
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315           Set PERIODUS to 0 to disable the switch timer.
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317           Default values:
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319           --userspace and --buffers-uid options
320               0
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322           --userspace and --buffers-pid options
323               0
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325           --kernel and --buffers-global options
326               0
327
328           metadata channel
329               0
330
331   Program information
332       -h, --help
333           Show help.
334
335           This option attempts to launch /usr/bin/man to view this manual
336           page. Override the manual pager path with the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
337           environment variable.
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339       --list-options
340           List available command options and quit.
341

EXIT STATUS

343       0
344           Success
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346       1
347           Command error
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349       2
350           Undefined command
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352       3
353           Fatal error
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355       4
356           Command warning (something went wrong during the command)
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ENVIRONMENT

359       LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
360           Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is encountered.
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362       LTTNG_HOME
363           Path to the LTTng home directory.
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365           Defaults to $HOME.
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367           Useful when the Unix user running the commands has a non-writable
368           home directory.
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370       LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
371           Absolute path to the manual pager to use to read the LTTng
372           command-line help (with lttng-help(1) or with the --help option)
373           instead of /usr/bin/man.
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375       LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
376           Path to the directory containing the session.xsd recording session
377           configuration XML schema.
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379       LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
380           Absolute path to the LTTng session daemon binary (see lttng-
381           sessiond(8)) to spawn from the lttng-create(1) command.
382
383           The --sessiond-path general option overrides this environment
384           variable.
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FILES

387       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
388           Unix user’s LTTng runtime configuration.
389
390           This is where LTTng stores the name of the Unix user’s current
391           recording session between executions of lttng(1).  lttng-create(1)
392           and lttng-set-session(1) set the current recording session.
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394       $LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
395           Default output directory of LTTng traces in local and snapshot
396           modes.
397
398           Override this path with the --output option of the lttng-create(1)
399           command.
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401       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
402           Unix user’s LTTng runtime and configuration directory.
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404       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
405           Default directory containing the Unix user’s saved recording
406           session configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
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408       /usr/local/etc/lttng/sessions
409           Directory containing the system-wide saved recording session
410           configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
411
412       Note
413           $LTTNG_HOME defaults to the value of the HOME environment variable.
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EXAMPLES

416       Example 1. Create a Linux kernel channel with default attributes in the
417       current recording session.
418
419           The following command line only creates a new channel if my-channel
420           doesn’t name an existing Linux kernel channel in the current
421           recording session.
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423               $ lttng enable-channel --kernel my-channel
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425       Example 2. Create a user space channel with a per-process buffering
426       scheme in a specific recording session.
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428           See the --session and --buffers-pid options.
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430               $ lttng enable-channel --session=my-session --userspace \
431                                      --buffers-pid my-channel
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433       Example 3. Create a Linux kernel channel in the current recording
434       session with four 32-MiB sub-buffers per ring buffer.
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436           See the --num-subbuf and --subbuf-size options.
437
438               $ lttng enable-channel --kernel my-channel \
439                                      --num-subbuf=4 --subbuf-size=32M
440
441       Example 4. Create a user space channel in the current recording session
442       with trace file rotation.
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444           See the --tracefile-count and --tracefile-size options.
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446               $ lttng enable-channel --userspace my-channel \
447                                      --tracefile-count=16 --tracefile-size=8M
448
449       Example 5. Enable two user space channels of a specific recording
450       session.
451
452               $ lttng enable-channel --session=my-session --userspace \
453                                      canal-d,rds
454

RESOURCES

456       •   LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>
457
458       •   LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>
459
460       •   LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org>
461
462       •   Git repositories <https://git.lttng.org>
463
464       •   GitHub organization <https://github.com/lttng>
465
466       •   Continuous integration <https://ci.lttng.org/>
467
468       •   Mailing list <https://lists.lttng.org/> for support and
469           development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
470
471       •   IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net
472

COPYRIGHT

474       This program is part of the LTTng-tools project.
475
476       LTTng-tools is distributed under the GNU General Public License
477       version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html>.
478       See the LICENSE <https://github.com/lttng/lttng-
479       tools/blob/master/LICENSE> file for details.
480

THANKS

482       Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory
483       <http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/> at École Polytechnique de Montréal for
484       the LTTng journey.
485
486       Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped us
487       greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases.
488