resource monitoring

[joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com (Joel Sherrill)]

Jan.Suchotzki at de.abb.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Joel,
> 
> I found the follwoing mail in the archive:
> 
> >Peter Mueller wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I like to monitor execution of an rtems application. I saw that the
> necessary OS hooks are already there to get e.g. task switching et cetera.
> My plan is to log >>such system events in a large ring buffer. The buffer
> could be displayed later on.
> >
> >If you are going to add any more system log events than can be done via
> adding
> >an extension,
> >I would HIGHLY recommend doing something a bit more general and adding
> some
> >macros that
> >can be dropped anywhere in the executive source and conditionally enabled.
> >Getting the
> >infrastructure in place to handle this is one thing.  Starting to
> instrument
> >RTEMS is another.
> >I would like to see some instrumentation in place.
>
> What do you mean with doing something a bit more general? 

There are only a handful of user extension points.  I would really like
to be able to generate a log of when system calls are made, resources
obtained, etc.

> There is a tool
> for monitoring the Linux Kernel (Linux Trace Toolkit).
> Do you mean something like this?