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.TH PROFILE 2
.SH NAME
profile \- profiling library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.EX
include "profile.m";
profile := load Profile Profile->PATH;
Range: adt{
l: int;
u: int;
f: int;
n: cyclic ref Range;
};
Funprof: adt{
name: string;
line: int;
count: int;
counte: int;
};
Modprof: adt{
name: string;
path: string;
srcpath: string;
rawtab: array of (int, int);
linetab: array of int;
rngtab: array of ref Range;
funtab: array of Funprof;
total: int;
totals: array of int;
covered: int;
};
Prof: adt{
mods: list of Modprof;
total: int;
totals: array of int;
};
Coverage: type list of (string, int, list of (list of (int, int, byte), string));
MODULE: con 1; # give stats for each module
FUNCTION: con 2; # give stats for each function
LINE: con 4; # give stats for each line
VERBOSE: con 8; # full stats
FULLHDR: con 16; # file:lineno: on each line of output
FREQUENCY: con 32; # show frequency rather than coverage
init: fn(): int;
profile: fn(m: string): int;
sample: fn(i: int): int;
start: fn(): int;
stop: fn(): int;
stats: fn() : Prof;
show: fn(p: Prof, v: int): int;
end: fn(): int;
# coverage profiling specific functions
cpstart: fn(pid: int): int;
cpstats: fn(rec: int, v: int): Prof;
cpfstats: fn(v: int): Prof;
cpshow: fn(p: Prof, v: int): int;
coverage: fn(p: Prof, v: int): Coverage;
# memory profiling specific functions
memstart: fn(): int;
memstats: fn(): Prof;
memshow: fn(p: Prof, v: int): int;
lasterror: fn(): string;
.EE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Profile
provides an interface to the kernel profile device. It contains routines to start and stop
profiling, to gather profiling statistics and to display these statistics in relation to the
relevant limbo source code. All of these routines apart from
.B lasterror
return a negative integer if an error occurred during their execution. Once this
happens, a call to
.B lasterror
will give the error message.
.PP
.B init
initializes the module and binds the kernel profile device onto the /prof directory.
It should be called before any other functions in this module.
.PP
.B profile
takes a module name or a path name as its argument and indicates a module to be profiled.
Repeated calls of this function allow a number of modules to be profiled together.
In the absence of any calls to this routine, the profile device profiles all modules
loaded by the kernel.
.PP
.B sample
sets the sampling interval of the profiling. The argument is in ms. The default value
in the profile device is 100ms.
.PP
.B start
starts profiling.
.PP
.B stop
stops profiling.
.PP
.B stats
returns profiling statistics. It is recommended that this is called once profiling has
been stopped, otherwise the results may be slightly inaccurate. It returns an adt
of type
.B Prof.
Its first field
.B mods
is a list of profile statistics for each module under profile.
Its second field
.B total
is the number of samples made altogether. The statistics for each module are
represented in the
.B Modprof
adt. Its fields are
.TP 10n
.B name
The name of the module.
.TP 10n
.B path
The path of the module's corresponding dis file.
.TP 10n
.B srcpath
The path of the module's corresponding source file.
.TP 10n
.B linetab
The line frequency count table. The number of samples made on a particular line of
the above source file is found by indexing this table.
.TP 10n
.B funtab
The function frequency count table. This array of
.B Funprof
adt gives the name, line number and number of samples made for each function in
the above source file.
.TP 10n
.B total
The total number of samples made in this module.
.PP
.B stats
will ignore modules if it fails to locate the symbol (.sbl) file for a particular dis file.
.PP
.B show
simply prints out the profile information returned by
.B stats.
For each module it will print out either the line number statistics or the function
statistics or both. The former gives the line number, percentage of time spent on
this line and the source code for each line in the source file. The latter gives the
line number, function name and percentage of time spent in this function for each
function in the source file. The amount of output can be controlled by the second
argument to
.B show.
The following should be ored together in the required combination to get the
desired effect.
.PP
.TP 10n
.B FUNCTION
Print the function table.
.TP 10n
.B LINE
Print the line number table.
.TP 10n
.B VERBOSE
Normally lines and functions are not shown if the sample frequency for them is
zero. This option prevents this.
.TP 10n
.B FULLHDR
Prints the file name as well as the line number in a form that can be selected in
.B acme
to show that particular line in a window.
.PP
.B show
will ignore modules if it fails to locate the source (.b) file for a particular dis file.
.PP
.B end
ends the profiling session. This should be called when all statistics have been
gathered in order to clean up the device profile's data structures.
.PP
In order to support coverage profiling as well the following new routines are
provided.
.PP
.B cpstart
Start coverage profiling on the process whose pid is given.
.PP
.B cpstats
Returns coverage profiling statistics from the profile device. If the first argument is
true, the raw results will be stored in a profile file whose name is <file>.prf where
<file> is the prefix of the corresponding dis file.
.PP
.B cpfstats
Returns coverage profiling statistics from any saved profile files.
.PP
.B cpshow
Shows the coverage profiling statistics.
.PP
.B coverage
Given the coverage profiler statistics this returns the list of modules profiled. Each module
has a name, a boolean indicating whether all instructions in the module were executed and a
list of lines. Each line consists of a list of ranges and the source code.
The list of ranges contains the character positions on the line of code corresponding to instructions that were not executed and an indicator of whether
partial execution was performed.
.PP
For the further support of memory profiling the following routines are available.
.PP
.B memstart
Start memory profiling.
.PP
.B memstats
Return the memory profile statisics.
.PP
.B memshow
Send memory profile statistics to standard output.
.PP
.SH SOURCE
.B /module/profile.m
.br
.B /appl/lib/profile.b
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR prof (3)