Linux Tools Capabilities Helios

Introduction

This documents Linux Tools Capabilities for the Helios release.

Capabilities

Linux Tools provides a single capability plugin that covers the majority of Linux Tools projects. This plugin is named org.eclipse.linuxtools.profiling.ui.capability. Capabilities for additional Linux Tools projects can be created by copying and pasting activityPatternBinding segments from the plugin.xml in this project and changing the project name.

There are two capabilities plugins covering different projects:

org.eclipse.linuxtools.profiling.ui.capabilities adds a "Profiling Tools" activity, which covers the following projects:

1. Gprof
2. Gcov
3. Lttng
4. Tmf
5. SystemTap GUI/Dashboard
6. Callgraph
7. Valgrind
8. OProfile

org.eclipse.linuxtools.capabilities adds a "General" activity, which covers the following projects:

Accessing

The capability plugin can be accessed from our SVN:

From an Eclipse SVN plugin, choose to add a new Repository and enter:

 svn://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.linuxtools

The profiling capabilities plugin can be found in this repository under profiling/trunk/org.eclipse.linuxtools.profiling.ui.capabilities.

The general capabilities plugin can be found in this repository under releng/trunk/org.eclipse.linuxtools.capabilities.

Adopters wishing to use these capabilities can adjust the plugin.xml in these plugins accordingly, or just copy and paste the capabilities/activites they need from the plugin.xml.

Example

For your convenience, here is the set of activityPatternBinding segments for Callgraph:

<activityPatternBinding
   activityId="org.eclipse.linuxtools.profiling.ui.capabilities"
   pattern="org\.eclipse\.linuxtools\.callgraph\..*/*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
   activityId="org.eclipse.linuxtools.profiling.ui.capabilities"
   pattern="org\.eclipse\.linuxtools\.callgraph/*">
</activityPatternBinding>