Requirements

Griffin is a kernel patch that relies on specific Intel Processor Trace (PT) hardware. The Griffin kernel will only work on an Intel processor that includes Processor Trace. Modern Intel processors, such as Intel Xeon include this hardware.

Installation

To build and install the Griffin kernel on your system, pull the Griffin kernel repository (this one), and in the top directory, run the following commands:

cp config .config  
make -j8  
make modules_install
make install

Note that you may need sudo access for the third and fourth command.

Running

The next page demonstrates how to run the Griffin Trace program, and how to run the example tests:

• Running Griffin Trace