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The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) registration web site has been showing "sold out" recently because the cap on early bird registrations
was reached. We are happy to report that we have reviewed the registration numbers for this year's conference and were able to open more early bird registration slots. Beyond that, regular registration will open July 1st. Please note that speakers and microconference runners get free passes to LPC, as do some microconference presenters, so that may be another way to attend the conference. Time is running out for new refereed-track and microconference proposals, so visit the CFP page soon. Topics for accepted microconferences are welcome as well.

LPC will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from Monday, September 9 through Wednesday, September 11.

We hope to see you there!

22 May 2019 1:03pm GMT

The LSS North America 2019 CFP is currently open, and you have until May 31st to submit your proposal. (That's the end of next week!)

If you're planning on attending LSS NA in San Diego, note that the Early Bird registration for Open Source Summit (which we're co-located with) ends today.

You can of course just register for LSS on its own, here.

20 May 2019 8:56pm GMT

We are pleased to announce that the Tracing Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Its return to Linux Plumbers shows that tracing is not finished in Linux, and there continue to be challenging problems to solve.

There's a broad list of ways to perform Tracing in Linux. From the original mainline Linux tracer, Ftrace, to profiling tools like perf, more complex customized tracing like BPF and out-of-tree tracers like LTTng, systemtap, and Dtrace. Part of the trouble with tracing within Linux is that there is so much to choose from. Each of these have their own audience, but there is a lot of overlap. This year's theme is to find those common areas and combine them into common utilities.

There is also a lot of new work that is happening and discussions between top maintainers will help keep everyone in sync, and provide good direction for the future.

Expected topics include:

• bpf tracing - Anything to do with BPF and tracing combined
• libtrace - Making libraries from our tools
• Packaging - Packaging these libraries
• babeltrace - Anything that we need to do to get all tracers talking to each other
• Those pesky tracepoints - How to get what we want from places where trace events are taboo
• Changing tracepoints - Without breaking userspace
• Function tracing - Modification of current implementation
• Rewriting of the Function Graph tracer - Can kretprobes and function graph tracer merge as one
• Histogram and synthetic tracepoints - Making a better interface that is more intuitive to use

Come and join us and not only learn but help direct the future progress of tracing inside the Linux kernel and beyond!

If you have another tracing topic idea, please send it to Steven Rostedt: rostedt@goodmis.org .

We hope to see you there!

20 May 2019 5:37pm GMT