115 lines
4.1 KiB
Groff
115 lines
4.1 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: moncontrol.3,v 1.7 2001/09/16 02:29:00 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1992, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)moncontrol.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt MONCONTROL 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm moncontrol ,
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.Nm monstartup
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.Nd control execution profile
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fn moncontrol "int mode"
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.Fn monstartup "u_long *lowpc" "u_long *highpc"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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An executable program compiled using the
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.Fl pg
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option to
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.Xr cc 1
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automatically includes calls to collect statistics for the
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.Xr gprof 1
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call-graph execution profiler.
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In typical operation, profiling begins at program startup
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and ends when the program calls exit.
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When the program exits, the profiling data are written to the file
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.Em gmon.out ,
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then
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.Xr gprof 1
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can be used to examine the results.
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.Pp
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.Fn moncontrol
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selectively controls profiling within a program.
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When the program starts, profiling begins.
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To stop the collection of histogram ticks and call counts use
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.Fn moncontrol 0 ;
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to resume the collection of histogram ticks and call counts use
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.Fn moncontrol 1 .
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This feature allows the cost of particular operations to be measured.
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Note that an output file will be produced on program exit
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regardless of the state of
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.Fn moncontrol .
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.Pp
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Programs that are not loaded with
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.Fl pg
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may selectively collect profiling statistics by calling
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.Fn monstartup
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with the range of addresses to be profiled.
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.Fa lowpc
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and
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.Fa highpc
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specify the address range that is to be sampled;
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the lowest address sampled is that of
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.Fa lowpc
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and the highest is just below
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.Fa highpc .
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Only functions in that range that have been compiled with the
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.Fl pg
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option to
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.Xr cc 1
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will appear in the call graph part of the output;
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however, all functions in that address range will
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have their execution time measured.
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Profiling begins on return from
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.Fn monstartup .
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.Bl -tag -width "PROFDIR"
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.It Ev PROFDIR
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Directory to place the output file(s) in. When this is set, instead of
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writing the profiling output to gmon.out, a filename is generated from
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the process id and name of the program. (e.g. 123.a.out) If you are
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profiling a program that forks, or otherwise creates multiple copies,
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setting this is the only reasonable way to get all profiling data.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
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.It Pa gmon.out execution data file
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr cc 1 ,
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.Xr gprof 1 ,
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.Xr profil 2
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