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 …

Full Disclosure: I am a researcher in Georgia Tech's ISTC-ARSA, which is funded by Intel. Although I reference two publications that share Xinyang Ge and Weidong Cui as authors, I am neither associated with them nor Microsoft Research at the time of writing. Intel Processor Trace (PT) is a powerful …

Lately, I've been playing around with Intel Processor Trace (PT); a x86 hardware feature that allows for complete tracing of process control flows. As part of my research, I've been developing my own Linux driver and user program to control PT. Tracing can be configured using a handful of model …