Greetings, if you're reading this tutorial, chances are you have some interest in Intel Processor Trace (PT) and how it can improve your debugging or program analysis capabilities, but aren't sure how to get started. This is understandable, given that there aren't many practical tutorials on Intel PT and what …

As part of my Ph.D. research, I play around with Intel Processor Trace a lot. As a result, I frequently use libipt; both as a library for my own software and for the reference programs it includes. ptdump and ptxed are my goto utilities for quickly checking and manipulating …