Profiling code execution on amd64?
Fabien Thomas
fabien.thomas at netasq.com
Mon Jan 17 09:01:13 UTC 2011
Last time i've used it it was working but I dont think it is really useful now (from my POV) because
you cant have a global view of the system with it and all other reports overlap.
With the current state you have:
- top mode for fast lookup
- text output (replace gprof for me)
- kcachegrind (calltree) for in depth analysis
- gprof
Fabien
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Steve Kargl
> <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 03:40:46PM -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jan 13, 2011, at 23:05 , Steve Kargl wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:08:30PM -0500, Ryan Stone wrote:
>>>>> I would suggest using hwpmc for profiling:
>>>>>
>>>>> # kldload hwpmc
>>>>> # pmcstat -S unhalted-cycles -O /tmp/samples.out ../penetration
>>>>> # pmcstat -R /tmp/samples.out -G /tmp/penetration.txt
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You can also get pmcstat to generate gprof-compatible output with -g,
>>>>> but I never use the mode so I'm really not sure what it gives you. I
>>>>> think that you have to run gprof on the output or something, but don't
>>>>> hold me to that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. I'll give it a try, but my initial attempt seems to
>>>> indicate that one needs to be root to use hwpmc.
>>>>
>>>> laptop:kargl[210] pmcstat -S unhalted-cycles -O /tmp/samples.out ../penetration
>>>> pmcstat: ERROR: Cannot allocate system-mode pmc with specification
>>>> "unhalted-cycles": Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>
>>> You only need to be root to profile the kernel or someone else's process.
>>>
>>> This tutorial might help:
>>>
>>> www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/neville-neil_dcbsdcon2009.pdf
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. I'll look at the tutorial. Meanwhile, should gprof
>> be removed from the base system because it appears broken?
>
> Instead of just removing things, why not determine why things are
> broken and try to fix them?
> -Garrett
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